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loft by this, as the Moorilh army that efcaped from the eni 

 gagement, worn out with fatigue, thirft, and hunger, would 

 only retire a ihort day's march to the water, where, finding 

 thenifelves not purfued, and incumbered with the number 

 of their wounded, they would neceflarily reft themfelves ; 

 and this was precifely the fituation, fn which his huntfmeii. 

 iiril: found them by the fide of a large pool of water. 



The king gave the command of this part of his army to> 

 the matter of the horfe, with orders to purfue them ona 

 day farther ; whilft he, having taken a fhort refrefhment, 

 began to attack the right wing of the Arabians fliut up 

 in the valley. The king^ difmounting, led the attack a^ 

 gainft the front of the Arabians, who, feeing their fituation 

 now defperate, began to make every effort to get from the 

 valley into the plain. But they did not know yet .upon what 

 difadvantageous ground they were engaged,, till the. foldiers 

 from, the rocks, above, every way furrounding them, rolled 

 down immenfe ftones which paffed through them in all di- 

 rections. Preffed, therefore, violently, by the king in their 

 front, and, in the rear deftroyed by an enemy they neither 

 could fee nor refift, they fell immediately into confufion, 

 and were, to a man, flaughtered upon the fpot; upon which 

 the king, giving to his troops orders for a general. plunder^ 

 retired himfelf to his camp, and in his tent received from 

 the mafter of the horfe an accoiuit of his expedition.. 



This officer had proceeded flowly, fpreading his troops as 

 wide as poffible upon the trac^ of the retreating enemy, to 

 give a fmaller- chance for any to efcape. AIL directed their 

 fliglit towards the pool of water, and were there deftroyed 

 without mercy,till a little after fun-fet. Thepurfuers had then 



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