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r^fiflance, and driving off whole villages of men, women,, 

 and children, whom .he fent into Arabia, or India, to.be fold^ 

 as Haves. 



It was amatter of great difficulty for the king of Add 

 to perfuad-e the Abyffinians that Maffudi acfted without his 

 inftigation. The young king was one who could not dif- 

 tinguifh Adel from Arar, or Mahomet's army from Mafludi's. , 

 He bore with very great impatience the exceiTes every year 

 committed by the latter; but he was over-ruled by his no- 

 bility at home, and his thoughts turned as much as poiTible • 

 to himting, to which he wiiUngly gave himfelf up; and,, 

 tho' but fifteen years of age, was the perfon, in all Aby f- 

 linia, mofl dexterous at. managing his arms. At lad, being 

 arrived at the age of feventeen, and returning from having 

 obferved a very fuccefsfuh expedition made by Miffudi a-, 

 gainft his territories, he ordered ZaSaluce, his firft miniller, „ 

 commander in chief; and governor of Amhara, to raife the. 

 whole forces to the fouthward, while he himfelf colle(5led 

 the nobility in Angot and Tigre. With thofe, as foon as the- 

 rainy feafon was over, he defcended.int^o. the kingdom of; 

 Adel. 



Tre king of Adel had been forced into this war^ yet, like a . 

 wife prince, he was not unprepared for it. He had. advanced 

 dire6lly towards the king, but had not paffed his frontiers. . 

 Some inhabitants of a village called Jmo^ all Mahometans, 

 but tributary to the king of Abyffinia, had mrurdered the 

 governor the king had fet over them. Ifcander marched ' 

 diredly to deftroy it, which he had no fooner accomplifhed, 

 than the Moorifh army prefented itfelf. The battle was 

 maintained obftina.tely on both fides, till the troops under 



