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APPENDIX. 
Name of the King. 
Principal Events during the Reign of each King. 
Place where he 
died. 
Length of 
the Reign 
iu Lunar 
Years. 
then, having gone so far, in order to sepa- 
rate his position as far as possible from the 
memory of the ancient times, founded like- 
wise a new residence, which, from the name 
of the Adansonia digitata, a specimen of 
which stood on the spot where he wished 
to build his house, received the name of 
Kuka, or rather Kukawa.* Being now 
fairly installed in the government of a 
vast but very distracted country, while he 
allowed the pomp of royalty to be borne 
by the descendant of the Sefuwa, and per- 
haps purposely exaggerated it, in order to 
make*it ridiculous, he was anxious at the 
same time to recover the lost provinces, 
and to defend the country against its south- 
eastern neighbour, who, from having been 
a vassal, had become a dangerous enemy. 
Indeed he had to sustain a long and san- 
guinary struggle with Bagirmi, in which he 
was not always successful. He undertook at 
first to reduce the overbearing and lawless 
Burgomanda, the ruler of that province, to 
obedience, with the assistance of 'Abd el 
Kerim Sabun, the powerful and intelligent 
prince of Waday ; but the latter chose 
rather to consult his own interests, and 
after carrying away all the treasures, and 
even many of the inhabitants of Bagirmi, 
he even granted to Burgomanda some sort 
of protection in return for an annual tri- 
bute to be paid to Waday, as we shall see 
in the following volume. At the same time 
the intelligent Sabun, whose predecessor 
Mohammed Saleh, by the conquest of the 
province of Fittri, had stept into the place 
of the pretensions raised by the Bulala, en- 
deavoured to gain more ground in Kanem. 
Meanwhile the powerful king of Waday 
died (a.d. 1815), but even this event did 
not relieve the situation of El Kanemi ; for, 
in a sudden and unexpected encounter of 
the two armies in Kotoko, the eldest and 
most beloved son of the sheikh was slain in 
1816, and in 1817 a bloody battle was lost 
by him at Ngala, on which occasion the 
titular sultan Dunama was slain. Mo- 
* It seems almost incredible that, although the members of the late mission have distinctly stated that Kuka is a new- 
town, yet even at the presenU day this place is identified by learned men with some ancient places having similar 
names. 
