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A BATTLE immediately followed, very bloody, as might 

 be expeded from the mutual hatred of the foldiers, from the 

 equality in mimbers, and the long experience each had in 

 the other's manner of fighting. The battle, often on the 

 point of being loft, was as often retrieved by the perfonal 

 exertion of the Moorifh officers, upon whom the lofs prin- 

 cipally fell. Sidi Hamet, the king's fon, the chiefs of Arar, 

 Nagal, Telga, Adega, Hargai, Gadai, and Kumo, were llain, 

 with feveral other principal men, who had either revolted 

 from the king of Abyffinia, or whom friendfhip to the 

 king of Adel had brought fram the oppofite coaft of Ara- 

 bia. 



The king was ftill advancing with diligence, when he 

 was overtaken by an exprefs, informing him that his queen 

 Romana was delivered of another prince, chriftencd by the 

 name of Anquo Ifrael. Upon which good tidings he halt- 

 ed at once to reft and feaft his army ; and, in the middle of 

 the feftivity, an exprefs from Adber Yafous brought him 

 news of the complete vidory over the Moors, and that there 

 was now no army in Adel of confequence enough to keep 

 the field. Hereupon the king detached a fufficient num- 

 ber of troops to reinforce Adber Yafous in Adel, and conti- 

 nued himfelf recruiting his army, and making greater pre- 

 parations than before, that, during the firft of the feafon, 

 he might utterly lay wafte the whole Moorilh country, or fo 

 Mifable them that they might, for many years, be content 

 to enjoy r>cace under the condition of becoming his tribu- 

 taries. 



While planning thefe great enterprifes, the king was feiz- 



cd witha pain in his bowels, whether from poifon or other- 



VoL. II. M wife 



