CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE HISTORY 
OF bo'rnu. 649 
Name of the King. 
Principal Events during the Reign of each King. 
Place where he 
died. 
Length of 
the Reign 
in Lunar 
Years. 
Wudi, Dikowa, &c, had the title " mainta ; " 
and there were many smaller charges, such 
as " buma, " probably signifying a "judge 
of life and death," from " bu," the blood. 
The king had forty lifeguards, in a nar- 
rower sense, men of great authority, called 
" goma," twenty at his left hand, and 
twenty at his right. 
I now proceed with the list of the succeeding 
kings. 
'Ali. 
Son of Edrfs and 
Zfneb. 
A just prince, who kept Kanem in strict sub- 
jection, but whose reign was too short to 
be of any importance. 
Zamtam. 
1. 
A. H. 952. 
A. D. 1545. 
Dunama, sur- 
named Ghama- 
KAMI. 
Son of Mohammed. 
Vanquished Abd el Jelfl the son of Kade the 
king of Kanem, who, once more assuming 
the offensive, had come to attack him in 
his own kingdom at Berberuwa, where Du- 
nama defeated him, followed him thence to 
Kanem, and beat him in another battle, in 
which fell the heir apparent of the throne 
of Kanem, and several other great men of 
the Bulala. After this, Kanem once more 
remained quiet and in a state of subjec- 
tion ; but the people of that country, never- 
theless, continued to make predatory in- 
cursions into Bornu. The only other fact 
which we know of his reign, is that he 
fortified Ghasreggomo, the capital or birni, 
built by 'AH ben Dunama. The chronicle, 
moreover, states that in his reign there 
was a great famine in Bornu. It must have 
been he also who concluded a treaty with 
Dragut, the famous renegade, in 1555. 
Ghasreggomo. 
19. 
A. H. 
953—971. 
A. D. 
1546-1563. 
'Abd Allah, or 
Dal a. 
Son of Dunama. 
Under him nothing very remarkable seems 
to have happened. After some time, Abd 
el Jelil, king of Kanem, whose officers 
never ceased to make predatory incursions 
into Bornu, died, and was succeeded by his 
son 'Abd Allah. It is, however, a fact of 
the highest importance that, under the reign 
of this Bornu king, we get the first intima- 
tion of the settlements of the Fulbe, or, as 
they are called by the Kanuri, the Fellatah 
("kabilet el Felatiye"), in Bornu.* In 
'Abd Allah's reign, also, there is said to 
have been a great famine in the land. 
Kitaba. 
7. 
A. H. 
972—978. 
A.D. 
1 yUl— ±Ot V/. 
* Imam A hmed. 
