CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE HISTORY OF BO'RNU. 653 
Name of the King. 
Principal Events during the Reign of each King. 
Place where he 
died. 
Length of 
the Reign 
in Lunar 
Years. 
against whom it was directed, or after the 
place Targtngha. These two expeditions 
seem to have been of secondary import- 
ance ; the third, however, was directed 
against the Berbers of Air, on which occa- 
sion, starting from A't-rebisa*, and passing 
the town Ghamarama, he overtook a nume- 
rous host of the inhabitants of Ahfr, or Air, 
in the open desert, between the town Tadsa 
and Air, and having, as the imam says, 
made a great slaughter of them, returned 
to Zibduwa, thence to the town Susubaki, 
and, having remained there awhile, re- 
tired to Muniyo.f Already, at an earlier 
date than these three expeditions led by 
him in person, his vizier, Kursuwa ben Ha- 
run, had fought a battle with the Tawarek, 
who had come with a numerous host of 
Tildhin (?) j, and other people, to attack 
him at Aghalwen. Having thus broken the 
strength of those Berber tribes, he ordered 
the Kil-yfti, or rather Kelwati§, who were 
living in his dominions, to make continual 
inroads into their territory, till they were 
obliged to sue for peace, when they were 
allowed to return to their former seats, 
vowing a qualified allegiance to the king 
of Bornu, while they ceased to yield obe- 
dience to the ruler of Air. || It is to be 
lamented that the imam A'hmed does not 
call the inhabitants of Air by the name of 
their tribe, as it would have been a matter 
of the greatest interest for us to know 
what tribe of Berbers had possession of 
the country at the time. It seems that the 
Kilyfti, or Kelwati, are identical with the 
Keleti, or Jotko, who, intermixed with 
Tebu, are living on the north side of the 
komadugu, between Duchi and Yd. 
I will here also mention the interesting ex- 
pedition which Edris Alawoma undertook 
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■ y 
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