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8. Yakobah — Ibrahim. His father was called 
Yakobah, and the country has probably derived its 
recent name of the late sultan : the capital is called 
Baushi. The rulers are Fellatahs. 
9. Kanou — 0 sin an Bel-Ibrahim. 
10. Kashna — Mohammed-Bello. 
11. Zaria — M alio mined Sani. 
12. Kataguni — Abd-er-Rahman. 
13. Kadaija — Ahmadou. 
14. Timbuctoo — Mohammed Lebbu, a Fellatah. 
15. Jinnee — 
16. Begharmi — Burkmanda. 
17. Mandara — 
18. Lagun — 
19. Zinder — Ibrahim. 
The alliances and enmities, the wars and the 
intrigues of all these princes, will one day, perhaps, 
form materials for some semi-mythological his- 
tory, when civilisation has removed its camp to 
these intertropical regions. Regular annals, how- 
ever, there never can be. No record seems to be 
kept, except in the unfaithful memories of the na- 
tives ; and even if the contrary were the case, pos- 
terity would willingly consign to oblivion all but 
the salient points of this period of barbarism and 
slave-hunting. 
Daura is a city of great antiquity, but I have 
never seen it on the maps. It is two days from 
Zinder on the route to Kanou, and has now about 
