CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE  OF THE  HISTORY  OF BO'RNU.    649
 

Name of the King.
 

     'Ali.

Son of Edrfs and

 Zfneb.
 

 Dunama, sur-

named Ghama-

    rami.

 Son of Mohammed.
 

'Abd Allah, or

    Dala.

 Son of Dunama.
 

Principal Events during the Reign of each King.
 

  Wiidi, Dikowa, &c, had the title " mainta;"

  and there were many smaller charges, such

  as " biima," probably signifying a "judge

  of life and death," from " bii," the blood.

  The king had forty  lifeguards, in a nar¬

  rower sense, men of great authority, called

  "goma," twenty  at  his left  hand, and

  twenty at his right.

I now proceed with the list of the succeeding

  kings.



A just prince, who kept Kanem in strict sub¬

  jection, but whose reign was too short  to

  be of any importance.



Vanquished 'Abd el Jelil the son of Kade the

  king of Kanem, who, once more assuming

  the offensive, had come to  attack him  in

  his own kingdom at Berberuwa, where Dii¬

  nama defeated him, followed him thence to

  Kanem, and beat  him in another battle, in

  which fell the heir apparent of the throne

  of Kanem, and several other great men of

  the Bulala.  After this, Kanem once more

  remained quiet and  in a state of subjec¬

  tion ; but the people of that country, never¬

  theless, continued to  make predatory in¬

  cursions into Bornu.  The only other fact

  which we  know  of  his reign, is that  he

  fortified Ghasreggomo, the capital or birni,

  built by 'Ali ben Dunama.  The chronicle,

  moreover,  states  that  in  his reign there

  was a great famine in Bornu. It must have

  been he also who  concluded a treaty with

  Dragiit, the famous renegade, in 1555.



Under him nothing very remarkable seems

  to have happened.  After some time, Abd

  el Jelil, king  of Kanem,  whose  officers

  never ceased to make predatory incursions

  into Bornu, died, and was succeeded by his

  son 'Abd Allah.   It  is, however, a fact of

  the highest importance that, under the reign

  of this Bornu king, we get the first intima¬

  tion of the settlements of the Fiilbe, or, as

  they are called by the Kanuri, the Fellatah

  ("kabilet el Felatiye"), in Bornu.*   In

  'Abd  Allah's reign, also, there is  said to

  have been a great famine in the land.
 


 

Length of
 

Place where he
 

the Reign
 

died.
 

in Lunar
 


 

Years.
 

Zamtam.
 

1.
 


 

A. H. 952.
 


 

A. D. 1545.
 

Ghasreggomo.
 

19.
 


 

A.H.
 


 

953—971.
 


 

A.D.
 


 

1546-1563.
 

Kitaba.
 

7.
 


 

A.H.
 


 

972—978.
 


 

A.D.
 


 

1564—1570.
 

* Imam A'hmed.