CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE HISTORY 
OF bo'kntj. 661 
Name of the King. 
Principal Events during the Reign of each King. 
Place where he 
died. 
Length of 
the Reign 
in Lunar 
Years. 
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the man to save the kingdom from the 
dangers which surrounded it. 
But although the empire was already pre- 
pared for ruin, there supervened a powerful 
cause of weakness ; for under A'hmed a 
very severe pestilence visited Bornu, carry , 
ing off a great number of people. This 
plague is said to have been announced by 
an eclipse of the sun, which preceded it 
by two years. 
About 1S08 began the inroads of the Fulbe 
or Fellata, who had conquered successfully 
the ancient Hausa kingdoms, which till 
then had been in a sort of tributary depend- 
ence upon Bornu. The consequence was 
that their countrymen, settled in Bornu 
from ancient times, as we have seen, being 
harassed by persecution, collected together 
in Gujeba, and from that point began their 
conquests, vanquishing all the officers whom 
A'hmed sent against them ; they then 
marched against Ghasreggomo, led on by 
Mala Rida, Mukhtar, and Hannima, de- 
feated the army of the sultan, who escaped 
by the eastern gate while they entered the 
town from the west side. A'hmed then 
went to reside in Kurnawa. This hap- 
pened in the year of the Hejra 1224, or 
1809 of our era, on a Sunday ; but I cannot 
say in what month. From that place the 
distressed king sent a message to the faki 
Mohammed el A mm el Kanenn, who, on 
account of his marriage with the daughter 
of the governor of Ngala, had begun to 
oppose himself to the progress of the con- 
querors ; for, having begged his father-in- 
law to allow him to take his wife and 
daughter with him to Fezzan, the latter 
refused, so that the faki, together with his 
friends Mohammed Tirab, and Ibrahim 
Waday collected in Binder, on the west 
border of the Tsad, a small force, said to 
have consisted of five horsemen and two 
hundred spearmen, with whom he success- 
fully attacked the Fulbe, who were dis- 
posed to laugh at his threats. Having 
collected more adventurers and patriotic 
men round him, he then vanquished the 
whole force of the conquerors in a battle 
near Ngornu, when he is said to have had 
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