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The entire company and their camp were then in Bur. So he sent the men whom the Kawahy had asked him to supply them with. They were led by Askia Muhammad and the Kawahy Ahmad bin al-Baghā, and Ali bin Abdullah al-Tilimsāti. They reached us in Keren on Friday the seventeenth of the mentioned month. Then news reached them on the night of Sunday the nineteenth of it, at the place of Adsus, where Hamd Fatima was. As for the conflict that was mentioned, it was a forgotten matter. Hamd found Fatima, Sultan of Massina. On the morning of that Sunday, they went to him. We, at that time, were returning to Kūl, informing our companions that we were waiting for them in the town of Zagh until they came to us. Then they departed and we joined them on the evening of Tuesday the twenty-first. On Friday the twenty-fifth of the month, they began to proceed to Bur, to the house of Sun, who is in the vicinity of Bādeh. We are waiting for them there, and they are in charge of the required matter. The rain has blocked the way to it. We returned and arrived on Wednesday, after the afternoon prayer, on the twenty-seventh of the mentioned month. We dismounted and went to Shibl, and I met him at sunset and informed his family of his Islam and the good news that the Pasha and Askia had done for them. They rejoiced greatly, and no one knew about this except me alone, until the Sultans caught up with them. Then, at the end of the month of Jumada al-Akhirah, the raiders returned and found no one. On Monday the eleventh of the month, Sun came from Kūl to his town, then to Sundi, which is a separation between the land of Kūl and the land of Fāk. We heard that he was in the land of Fāk. We are waiting for them.

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