28 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



ever, fcarce thrown aiide their arms, difpofed of their wound- 

 ed in proper places, and begun to aflliage their thirll after 

 the toils of the aiTault, when the Abyffinian horfe, breaking 

 through the covert, came fwiftly upon them, unable either 

 to fight or to fly, and the whole body of them was cut to 

 pieces without one man efcaping. 



The king, upon return of his troops, began to confider^ 

 and, by combining various circumflances in his mind, to^ 

 fufpeft ftrongly, that, from the Moors attacking him, as 

 they had for fome time lately done, always in the moil un- 

 favourable circumflances, there mufl be fome intelligence 

 between his camp and that of the enemy. Upon examin- 

 ing more particularly into the grounds of this fufpicion^ 

 three men of Harar(who had long attended the army as fpies) 

 were difcovered, and being convifted, were carried out, and 

 their heads cut off at the entrance of the camp; after which 

 the king, who now found himfelf without an enemy in 

 thefe parts,, flruck his tents, and returned to Gaza in Da- 

 waro^ 



This movement of Am da Sion's had more the appearance 

 of opening a campaign than the doling of one, and occa- 

 iioned great difcontent among the foldiers, who had done- 

 their bufinefs, and were without an enemy, jufl at tha;t time 

 that the rains fall fo heavy, and the country becomes fo un- 

 wholefome as to make it uhadvifable to keep the field. 

 They, tlierefore, remonflrated by their officers to the king,^ 

 that they mufl return to their houfes for the feveral months 

 of winter which were to follow ; and that, after the fatigues,, 

 dangers,, and hardfliips they had undergone for fo many 



3. months J 



