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APPENDIX I. 
The catastrophe of" the extinction of this last remnant of 
the empire of Melle is not without interest in the modern 
history of the western part of Central Africa. For a civil 
war having arisen between the royal princes Dabo and Sa- 
gone, sons of Ferengh Mahmud, the late king or ruler of 
Melle, (the title " Ferengh," instead of the more exalted one 
of Mansa, showing his reduced state of rank,) all the most 
powerful tribes in that part of the continent took part in the 
quarrel : one faction being formed by the Bambara, who, in 
the meantime, had won Sego from their masters and near 
relations the Mandingoes, the Welad Mazuk, the noblest 
portion of the Welad Mebarek, and the A^hel Semboru, 
that is to say, a section of the Fullan, who meanwhile had 
settled in these quarters ; while the opposite party consisted of 
the Ruma, or Erma, the Moroccain conquerors of Songhay, 
who had settled down in certain places of that vast empire, 
and intermarried with the natives ; the Zenagha ; the Welad 
' Alush, a very warlike tribe, mentioned above ; and the 
A'hel Masa, or Saro, a section of the Wakore. In this 
struggle the capital of Melle was destroyed; and while 
the people of Bambara took possession of the south-western 
portion of its dominions, the Welad Mebarek, with their 
friends the Welad Mazuk, rendered themselves masters of 
its north-eastern districts. For Henntin, the son of B6- 
hedel, son of Mebarek, who had led this tribe in the san- 
guinary and long-lasting war, received from the hands of 
Mulay Ismail, the energetic emperor of the Gharb, as a 
sort of feudal dominion, the lordship of Baghena; and his 
successors have at least partly retained it up to this day. 
I here give a list of these chiefs, adding the length of their 
reigns, wherever I was able to make it out : — 
'Omar ( A'm.mer) Weled Hen nun, a powerful chief, who has 
given his name to the ruling tribe, which, after him, is called 
Welad *Omar (A'mmer), a name corrupted by Park into 
Ludamar, 
'All Weled 'Omar ruled almost forty years; was visited 
by Park shortly before his death. 
