CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE HISTORY OP BO'RNU. 663 
Name of the King. 
Principal Events during the Reign of each King. 
Place where he 
died. 
Length ol 
the Reign 
in Lunar 
Years. 
some rival. Mohammed el Amin's authority, 
however, was so well established in the 
goodwill of the people, that on being cited 
before the sultan he was able to appear 
before him unattended, while the latter 
dared not hurt him. The consequence was 
that the faki's, or rather the sheikh's 
(shekho — for this title he now began to 
adopt) influence increased every day, and 
Dunama, with his party, made a last effort 
to release himself from that influence, and 
to preserve the royal dignity. Indeed he 
might hope that if he succeeded in esta- 
blishing his court at a certain distance, he* 
might rally around himself the old par- 
tisans of royalty; but before he reached 
Wudf, the place he had selected for his 
residence, one of the principal settlements 
of the Temaghera, and which had been 
the abode of several of the old Bornu 
kings, Mohammed el Arnfn, who perceived 
that the time was now come when he must 
decide whether he was to be subject or 
ruler, even though he did not aspire to the 
title of king, had him arrested on the road, 
and brought back to Berberuwa. But find- 
ing him still obstinate, he deposed him 
altogether, reproaching him with a wish to 
betray his country ; and then he transferred 
the title and pomp of a sultan to Mo- 
hammed, a brother of A'hmed, and uncle of 
Dunama. Mohammed then began to build 
himself a new residence, which is called by 
the Arabs Birni jedid, two miles and a half 
north-west from Ngornu. But when Mo- 
hammed el Amin saw that this man was no 
less obstinate than Dunama, he reinstated 
the latter again. So that Mohammed, 
having reigned but a short time, and that 
only by the will of the usurper, is not 
mentioned at all by the chronicle. 
We may therefore reckon the commencement 
of the present dynasty of the Kaneimyin 
from the year 1814 of our era. It is a very 
remarkable fact, that an utter stranger to 
the country should become its ruler; but the 
struggle was not yet at an end, and could 
not well be ended without much bloodshed 
as soon as the fascinating personal influence 
of the liberator was gone by. The sheikh 
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