i8o A TROPICAL DEPENDENCY In summing up SonnI All's military career, the chronicle says of him : ''He only suffered two reverses, one at Duoneo and the other in Borgu. He surpassed all the kings his predecessors, in the numbers and valour of his soldiery. His conquests were many, and his renown extended from the rising to the setting of the sun. If it is the will of God he will be long spoken of."

Dounna, a mountainous country in the West, which had resisted Sonni Ali, and afterwards fought Mohammed El Hadj so well, that neither of them could achieve anything against its inhabitants. — Tarikh, p. 8r.