252 A TROPICAL DEPENDENCY priests and teachers, spent a period of several months In Kano. The Bornu chronicle quoted by Dr. Barth, says that Kalnama, King of Bornu, took refuge In Kano from his rebellious subjects about the year 1430. The Kano chronicle would seem to date the visit nearly a hundred years earlier, but the agreement between the two chronicles Is sufficient to show that, at the end of the fourteenth century, Mohammedanism was generally accepted in the high places of Haussaland. It was In the reign of this David that the conquest of Zaria was completed under orthodox conditions, and Queen Amina ranked among the subject sovereigns of Kano. At this time, according to Kano authority, the whole of the south of what Is now Northern Nigeria was subject to Kano. A more malicious interpretation of the facts of the treaty with Zaria would suggest that the generosity of King David In allotting the land tax of the southern provinces, as well as the special taxes of Nupe, to the service of Queen Amina, was not wholly voluntary.

During the next reign a general of the Kano forces remained in the southern provinces for seven years, conquering the pagans, taking many prisoners, and sending every month a thousand slaves from the seat of war to Kano. The King kept the armies well supplied, and after this experience the affairs of the southern portion of Haussaland seem for a time to have given no more cause for preoccupation. Relations with Bornu in the east had In the meantime become pressing. Embassies and the opening of the roads led finally to war, of which the result, towards the beginning of the fifteenth century.

Is glosed In the single sentence that "many towns were given to Bornu." This king was the first to have camels and to drink wine In Haussaland.

In the reign of the following king, Yakoub, or Jacob — that is, about the year 1402 to 1422 — we first hear of the immigration of Fulani, who came from Melle and Masina, to Haussaland, and were given land in Kano,