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heels. Finally, all he defired of them was, that thofe who 

 would not fight Ihould only Hand as fpeftators, but not 

 leave their places. As no iign of content or convi6tion was 

 retmned, the king, feeing that all was loft if they difbanded^ 

 the enemy being juft ready to engage, ordered his mafter 

 of the horfe, and five others, to attack, the left wing of the 

 enemy, while he, with a fmall part of his fervants and houfe- 

 hold, did the fame on the right. 



The Abyffinian hiftory, feldom juft to the memory of indi- 

 viduals, hath yet, in this inftance, (almofta fmgle one), prefer- 

 ved the names of thefe brave men. The firft was Zana Asfe- 

 ri ; the fecond, Tecla ; the third, Wanag Araad ; the fourth,, 

 Saif Segued, (one of the king's fons ;) the fifth, Badel Waliz ; 

 and the fixth, Kedami. Thefe, as is fuppofed, with their at- 

 tendants and fervants, (though hiftory is filent but as to the 

 fix) fell furiouily on the left of the Mahometan army. 



The king, at the firft onfet, killed, with his own hand,, 

 the two leaders of the right wing ; and his fon, Saif Segued,, 

 having alfo ftain another confiderable officer on the left, a 

 panic feized both thefe bodies of Moors, and the army ap- 

 parently began, at one and the fame time, to waver : On 

 which the Abyflinians, now alhamed of their conduc% and 

 perceiving the king's danger, with a great Ihout fell furi- 

 oufly upon the enemy. The whole Mooriih ariny having, by 

 this time, joined, the battle was fought widi great obftinacy 

 on both fides, till firft the center, then the left wing of the 

 Moors, was broken and difperfcd; but the right, confifting 

 chiefly of ftrangers from Arabia, kept together, and, not 

 knowing the country,, retired into a narrow deep valley 



furrounded 



