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They returned with the spoils, and God Almighty granted victory to the army of Al-Yasha over the people of Masia on that Monday, the fourteenth of the month. They defeated them by the will of God Almighty and killed them with great slaughter. Then Hamad sent Fatima bin Funduk Ibrahim to the Pasha, the chief, to seek safety, so that he might come to him and enter his obedience. He granted him that, to relieve the distress, and Funduk brought him to the chief, Hamad Amina. They reached them in his settlement, and they fell upon them, so they fled and left their possessions and their homes. They drowned scattered and scattered, and the army gained their possessions. They returned to the people of Fatima what they had asked for of their families, and Kar Nir was appointed to seize what came towards them of their families and possessions, in revenge for God Almighty against them for the abundance of their injustice, their wickedness, their tyranny, and their corruption in the land from every side and place. The people of God Almighty, the poor, and the needy, and they took their possessions unjustly and aggressively. And on the day of Tuesday, the seventh of Jumada al-Ula, San 'Uthman and Funduk, the chief of the land of Akr, set out in thirteen small boats, going to visit the Baga, the chief of Askia, and they met them. And they were with them in one of the boats. They entered the sea of Zag, and Hamad Amina, the aforementioned, met them with a large force. He spoke with them for a long time until he asked them, then they went to the settlement. They said: "We are visiting and seeking reconciliation with you." He said to them: "We and God have been neighbors since ancient times, since the time of fathers and grandfathers. If you are holding fast to this neighborliness, then return to your lands, for they are sultans, and whoever comes to the sultan has no will or authority over himself. And if the raid comes upon you, you will have no one to save you from it." (Footnotes indicate possible OCR errors for names like 'Uthman', 'Salim', 'Al-Ahdad', and 'Arum'.)

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