Note 75 — CHAP. XXIX.

However, even in the time of Lucas (Proceedings of the Afric. Assoc., vol. i. p. 119.), great part at least of the Koyám were still living in Kánem. The Íkeli, or rather “people of Íkeli,” اهل اكلي, mentioned by Makrízi, seem not to have constituted a separate tribe, although they had a chief or ملك of their own, there being not the least doubt that they were the inhabitants of the celebrated place Ikeli, اكله, usually called Fúrtwa by the Bórnu people, about which I shall speak in the course of my journey to Kánem.—A peculiar tribe is mentioned frequently by the imám Ahmed as el Kenaníyín; but I am not yet able to offer a well-established opinion with regard to them.—With regard to the Arabs who are mentioned several times in Imám Ahmed’s history, as a powerful element in the population of Kánem, I shall have occasion to speak hereafter.