CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE HISTORY OF BO'RNU. 655 
Name of the King. 
Principal Events during the Reign of each King. 
Place where he 
died. 
Length of 
the Reign 
in Lunar 
Years. 
soon ceased to make any distinction be- 
tween foreigners and natives, and attacked 
all who fell in their way. For two years 
he laid waste their fields, destroying even 
the plantations of cotton and sesamum, 
while "his vizier Kursuwa ransacked the 
town Meghuluma till he reduced the in- 
habitants to obedience. He then without 
delay proceeded against the western Nghi- 
zim, calledBinawa by ImamA'hmed. These 
Binawa infested all the neighbouring pro- 
vinces of the empire, and wholly interrupted 
the communication between Bornu and an 
important trading-place in the west, called 
by our historian Fagha, and probably iden- 
tical with the Ragha, or Raghay, mentioned 
by E'bn Batuta, just in the same quarter, 
lying between Gober — that is, the original 
country of that name, with the capital 
Tinshaman — and Bdrnu. Having con- 
quered all their strongholds, — viz. Mawa, 
A/gham, Bani, and Ghujembina*, — he so 
terrified the people around, that all, even 
those of Katagumf included, made their 
submission. The Nghizim are identical with 
the tribe now generally called Nkizam, 
which is at present greatly reduced, living 
in the following places, all lying between 
Auydk and Katagum : — Tashina, U'nik, 
Shagatd, Chibiay, Belangu, Badda, Rd- 
meri, Zdngolom, Melebetiye, U'mari, and a 
few more. 
After all these warlike undertakings, this 
active prince, having rested for a little more 
than a year, undertook a pilgrimage to Mek- 
ka, probably in the ninth year of his reign. 
Having returned from thence, " Haj Edris," 
as he is now to be styled, led his army 
against the Tetala, or Telalaj, a warlike 
and high-spirited pagan tribe settled in the 
O s J 
* tawirfsji: • 14 is remarkable that this name, in its latter part, closely resembles that of Mabina, the country 
mentioned by Makrizi as invaded by a B6rnu king (Dunama Selmami) in the year 1250. See above, p. 262. 
% The name in my MS. is sometimes written ? at others 
