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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. 
quarter ; indeed, not only the considerable 
town of Barruwa, one day's march north of 
the komadugu, on the road to Kanem, but 
even other places in the middle of Bornu, 
as will be seen in the course of my narra- 
tive, have to buy their peace by a sort 
of tribute to be paid to the Tawarek free- 
booters. 
But besides his own personal weakness, and 
inclination to ascetic piety, there was a 
dangerous cancer undermining the health 
of the new dynasty : this was the rivalry 
which soon arose between him and his 
brother 'Abd e' Rahman, on account of the 
vizier el Haj Beshir, who enjoyed the whole 
confidence of the sheikh, and employed his 
authority too exclusively. The results of 
this unfortunate quarrel I will here report 
to their end, although they fall after the 
time of my arrival in Bornu. I have already 
observed above, that on leaving Murzuk 
we were informed that a quarrel was about 
to break out between 'Omar and 'Abd e' 
Rahman ; but happily matters were then 
adjusted, and the rivalry did not pro- 
ceed to a civil war before the winter of 
1853, when Abd e' Rahman, with his par- 
tisans, left Kukawa and went to Gujeba. 
The sheikh and his vizier followed him, 
but being betrayed by many of the cour- 
tiers, who were badly disposed against the 
vizier, they were defeated in an irregular 
skirmish; and Haj Beshir, certainly with 
very little show of courage, was the first 
who turned his back, and collecting his 
most valuable treasures, started for Waday. 
Being detained by the Shuwa, who would 
not allow him to cross the Shan, he was 
induced to return to Kukawa, on safe-con- 
duct being promised to him by 'Abd e' 
Rahman, but having been found guilty of 
treason was strangled. 'Omar meanwhile 
was allowed to reside as a private man in 
the house of his former vizier till, in the 
summer of 1854, 'Abd e' Rahman ordered 
him to go to reside in Dikowa. He then 
collected the malcontents, and on the 'Aid 
el kebir vanquished his brother in the open 
place between the two towns, and made 
