adama reached guringa in 1809 with a large army in good morale. he quickly conquered the mandara settlement at guider and headed north, taking several more villages along the way. outside of the mandara capital, dulo, adama demanded that the king, bukar djiama, swear his allegiance and convert to islam untainted with paganism. bukar agreed to acknowledged adama's right to rule his own subjects, but he refused to yield his own sovereignty. adama and his men took dulo with little fighting.