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APPENDIX. 
Name of the King. 
Principal Events during the Reign of each King. 
Place where he 
died. 
Length of 
the Keign 
in Lunar 
Years. 
lest, if he stayed longer, his retreat might 
be cut off by the river, he sent Ibra- 
him Waday as a messenger of peace to 
the sheikh, declaring that he had not un- 
dertaken this expedition from any desire 
of conquest, but at the instigation of a 
great many of the noblest kokanawa or 
grandees of Bornu, whose letters he for- 
warded to the sheikh. He then, in the 
last days of April, or the first days of May, 
1846, left Ngornu, commencing his retreat 
to his far- distant residence, and leaving 
the recently-elevated sultan to his fate. 
But it appears that 'AH the son of Ibram 
was a courageous young prince ; for he 
thought himself strong enough to march 
against the sheikh, whom he encountered 
at Minarem, but was quickly vanquished 
and slain. Thus the last of the Sefuwa 
died an honourable death on the battle- 
field. It was now evident that the family 
of Mohammed el Kanemi, who had liberated 
the country from a warlike and successful 
enemy, was well established in the place of 
the ancient rulers, who had degenerated 
into mere puppets, and were totally unable 
to defend themselves and their subjects. 
A great slaughter of all the partisans of 
the old dynasty followed, and principally 
of the Sugurti, who had risen as their espe- 
cial upholders ; and a little later, in order 
to efface as far as possible all recollection 
of those times, the destruction of New 
Birni was decided on, and fell to the 
lot of Haj Beshir, the son of Tirab, who 
had succeeded his father as the first minister 
and most confidential servant of the sheikh. 
From this time, people say, dated the 
great wealth of the vizier. Meanwhile 
Sheikh 'Omar went in person to casti- 
gate Serki Ibram, the governor of Zinder, 
who had risen in open revolt, and took 
and plundered the town, though he par- 
doned and reinstated the governor, while 
'Abd e' Rahman quelled the rebellion of 
the Manga, who, ever restless and inclined 
to insurrection, had thought this an excel- 
lent opportunity of asserting their inde- 
pendence. 'Omar himself brought the then 
