"Umm Karham," they said, "there is no harm if God wills. It is necessary to go to them, as we have arrived here."

They bid farewell to their chiefs and asked them to wait at the back of the Kalank Sea until their guests brought them cows. So they set off, and I advised them, "When you reach the Pasha and Askia, you must tell them everything that happened between you and him, so that you may be truthful in your statements." They replied, "That is our intention." On Monday the thirteenth of the month of Dhu al-Hijjah, Abu Kin Khalna, his son Ismail, the Kahya Muhammad Shammar, Fadak Muhammad Fatima, and the Kahya Muhammad bin Ruh, and the dismissed Kawagis, who were hesitant about the raid on the people of Kura, arrived. They were welcomed, honored, and greatly respected. Fadak then recounted to them everything that had transpired between them and him on their journey. They said to him, "That is our intention." He replied, "With the blessing of God and His good help, we are with you in whatever you wish and desire." The Kahya Abd and bin Ruh, and all the Kawagis, then informed them of the arrival of the people of Kal, and gathered them all in the state they had arrived. They asked him to increase their men. "For," he said, "the men of the tribe are more than those who wrote that letter to the Pasha. And I have here with me Fadak, with horses for him and Askia, whom they sent to them from there. And I have written them a letter of peace and supplication, and that when the objective is achieved in joining the tribe of Hamd Allah, they will come to see their faces. And I wrote my letter and said in it to the Pasha, 'Nothing brought me on this road except to visit you and greet you, and there is no way to reach you at this hour except by..."