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Adding together the information to be gathered from Bruce, Cailliaud and the MS., as to the relationships between the first fifteen or sixteen kings, we obtain the following genealogical tree of the OunsAb.

(i). 'Omara Dunkas

2 (or 3). 'Abd el Kadir I I 6. Tabl I I 7. Ounsa I

3 (or 2). Ndll 4. ('Omdra Abu Sakaykfn) Ca.

5. Dekfn, 4. ('"Amru"i.e. 'Omdra Abu "Sahib el 'Ada" Sakaykfn) Br.

or "Sfdel 'Ada"

8. 'Abd el I^adir II 9. 'Adlan I, I "Walad Aya"

10. Badi I, "Sid el Kum " (or 6. (Douro, or Dorah, etc.) Br. and Ca. "AbuelRubat" Ca.) I 1 1 . el Rubat

12. Badi II, "Abu Dukn" Nasir r 13. Ounsa II I

14. Badi III, "el Ahmar" 15. Ounsa III

The 1 6th (or 17th) king, Nul, was only connected with the above on his mother's side (see para, xlvii, MS.).

In place of the date 1504 (the date of the foundation of the Fung kingdom) Cailliaud gives 1484, and he is alone in doing so. He then states

the numbers of years that each king (including "Dorah") reigned: the total down to 1821 A.d. he gives as 335 years; but in adding up this total he omits 6 months + 5 months + 30 days, so 336 years would be more correct. To this must be added the interregnum of ik years in the time of Ranfi, which Cailliaud mentions but does not include in the total ; and the result is 337 to 338 years.

The dates of accession are not given except in the case of 'Omara Dunkas.

Now it is very suspicious that if 337 be subtracted from 1821 the result is 1484. I say suspicious advisedly, because, in the first place, one notes that the period from 910 a.h. (1504 a.d.) to 1236 a.h. (1821 a.d.) covers 327 lunar years, namely the period given in the MS., and that, if eight

years be added on account of the inclusion of "Dorah" ("Douro," etc.)

as given by Cailliaud, we arrive at 335 lunar years, namely the number quoted by Cailliaud. The period from 1504 a.d. to 1821 a.d. covers only

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