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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 
in Lunar 
Years. 
great advantage, in endeavouring to obtain 
this object from Bagfrmi, that his mother be- 
longed to that country. Having also made 
peace with the Fulbe after an unsuccessful 
expedition against them, he had some dif- 
ficulty in restraining the governors of the 
western provinces, who are almost inde- 
pendent vassals, from making incursions 
into their territory. It was on this account 
that he was obliged, in the beginning of 
1846, to send a strong army, commanded 
by his brother 'Abd e' Rahman, against 
Ibram, the restless governor of Zmder, 
whose obstinate disregard of the peace with 
the Fulbe proceeded to open rebellion. 
This opportunity, when all the best troops 
were about to march to the distant west, 
was seized on by the numerous partisans 
of the old dynasty, to aim a mortal blow at 
the house of the sheikh by secretly in- 
viting the King of Waday, Mohammed 
e' Sherif, to re-establish the Sefuwa on 
the throne of Bornu. Mohammed listen- 
ing to this invitation, collected his army, 
and in Mulud or Kebi el awel, 1262, that 
is, in March 1846, reached Kusuri. The 
sheikh never heard of his approach till he 
was very near. He at once summoned the 
sultan Ibram from Birni, and, denouncing 
him as a traitor, placed him in irons; he 
then hastily collected what troops remained 
behind, having no one with him upon whom 
he could rely, except Tirab his faithful 
minister (the intimate friend of his father), 
his brother the valorous All, together with 
from five to six hundred Arabs and Tebu. 
With this little band, swelled by a crowd 
of faithless Shuwa, he encamped on the 
western bank of the river of Logon, not 
far from the town of Kusuri, while Waday 
was encamped on the eastern bank of the 
Shan. The inhabitants of Kusuri locked 
the gates of their town against both armies, 
but secretly communicated with Waday; 
and when Mohammed e' Sherif was unable 
to force the passage of the river in the face 
of the enemy, who did great execution 
with two cannons, the Waday having none, 
they sent to him orfering to lead part of 
his army round by a ford which was pro- 
