Note 183 — APPENDIX. (continued 2)

Ábú ’l Fedá, texte Arabe, p. 245., compared with p. 127., where, in speaking of Wadán, he says distinctly, والجميع الان في طاعة ملك الكانم “And the whole of the country is at present under the dominion of the king of Kánem.” In the time of Makrízí the empire of Kánem extended from Zála, the well-known place eight days’ march from Aújila, and the same distance from the syrtis (Edrísí, p. 288.; Ábú ’l Fedá, p. 128.), as far as Kaká (Gógo), on the meridian of Maghreb el aúsat.—Quatremère, Mémoires sur l’Egypte, vol. ii. p. 28.