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furrounded by fleep perpendicular rocks, covered thick with 

 wood. 



The Abyflinian army, thinking all at an end by the 

 flight of the Moors, began, after their ufual cuftom, to 

 plunder, by ftripping and mangling the bodies of the killed 

 and wounded. But the king, who, from the millake of the 

 Arabians, faw the deltmdlion of this right wing certain, if 

 immediately purfued, ordered it every where to be pro- 

 claimed through the jSeld, that the whole army fliould re- 

 pair to the royal llandard, which he had fet up on an emi- 

 nence, and give over plundering, under pain of death. Find- 

 ing this order, however, flackly obeyed, he himfelf, fcouring 

 the field at the head of a few horfe, with his own hand flew 

 two of his foldiers whom he found ftripping the dead with- 

 out regard to his proclamation. This example from a 

 prince, exceedingly fparing of the blood of his foldiers, had 

 the efiea: to recal them all to the royal ftandard difplayed 

 on a rifing ground. 



He then feparated his army into two divifions ; all the 

 foot, and thofe of his horfe that had principally fuffered in 

 the fevere engagement of the day, he led up to the mouth 

 of the valley where the right wing of the Arabians had fhut 

 themfclvcs up ; and, having befet all acccfs to the entrance 

 of it, he ordered the foot to climb up through the woods, 

 and on every fide furround the valley above the heads of 

 thofe unhappy people thus devoted to certain dcftrucTiion. 



While this was doing, the king ordered thofe of the 

 cavalry that had fuffered leaft in the fatigue of the day, to re- 

 fresh themfelves and their horfes. He knew no time was 



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