[388]Though the Tebu are probably themselves a Kanuri stock, a distinction may be drawn between them and the more negroid Kanuri of Bornu and the Chad lands.
[389]See Abul Fida (French ed.), pp. 127-8 and 245; El Idrisi (ed. Jaubert), p. 288. At the time of El Maqrizi the empire of Kanem extended from Zella (Sella), south of the Great Syrtis, to Gogo (Gao) on the Niger. El Maqrizi lived from 1365 to 1442: Abul Fida died in 1331 writing his history, which was finished down to the year A.D. 1329.
[390]Other than a wholesale emigration of Franks and Byzantines to Europe.
[391]Cf. [Chap. XI.] supra.
[392]See [Appendix II.] and elsewhere in this chapter, also Ibn Khaldun, op. cit., Vol. II. p. 3.
[394]Consider the proportion of such names in the Itesan group, and in the forty-six Kel Geres tribes, respectively. Cf. [Appendix II.]
[395]Jean, op. cit., p. 86.
[396]Jean, op. cit., p. 113, and Barth, op. cit., Vol. I. p. 356, also [Appendix II.] to this volume.
[397]Cf. [Appendix II.] Tribes having the same place names now in Air are not related to these clans; their history is independently established.