HAUSSALAND 267 century, Al Wall the king fled to Zaria, and the Zaria chronicle mentions the fact that a king of Kano called Al Wali rebuilt the walls of Kano about the year 1787. We are therefore, I think, justified in supposing that this prince was the last of the line of Haussa kings in Kano. The conquest of Haussaland by the Fulani, which took place in the beginning of the nineteenth century, represented to all the towns alike a catastrophe of the first magnitude, only to be paralleled in the country lying to the east of the Niger by the earlier catastrophe of the Moorish conquest in the countries lying to the west.