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Mahomet, calkd Gragiie, (which ii^miieg%^/;/sW<^<3!^oom*- 

 manclcd this army. He was governor &£ ZeyU, and had ■ 

 promoted the league, with the Turkiili bafhas on the coaiV. 

 of Arabia ; and, hxiving now given the king a check ia his 

 iirft enterprife, be refolved to- cany on the. war with liim in ■. 

 away that flioukl produce fomethjng decifive. He remain- 

 ed then quiet two years at home, fent all the prifoners he 

 had made in the laft expedition to Mecca, and to the Turk- 

 ifli powers on the coaft,. and reqmred from them in return . 

 the number of troops ftipulated, with a train- of portable ar- 

 tillery, wliich was pun(5tuallyfurnifhed, while a large body- 

 of janizaries crofled over and joined the Moorilh army. . 

 Mahomet led thefe troops llraight into Fatigar, which he 

 over-ran, as he did the two other neighbouring provinces , 

 Ifat and Dawaro, burning and laying wafte the whole coun-- 

 try, and driving, as was his ufual manner, immenfe num-. 

 bers of the inhabitants, whom the fword had fpared, back . 

 with him to Adel. 



The next year, Mahomet marched from Adel dire^ly in- 

 to Dawaro, committing the fame excefTes. The king, who 

 faw in defpair that total ruin threatened his whok country, 

 and that there were no hopes but in a battle, met the Moor- 

 ifh army at Ifras, very much inferior to them in every fort 

 of appointment. The battle was fought ill May 1528; the 

 king was defeated, and Illam Segued, his lirfl: minifter, who 

 commanded the ai-my that day, with many of his principal 

 officers, were llain upon the fpot, and the Moorilh army 

 took polTelTion of Shoa. David retreated with his broken 

 army into Amhara, and encamped at Hegu, thmking to 

 procure reinforcements during the bad weather, but Gragne 

 was tooneai' to give himtime- for. this. He entered Amhara, 



deilroying. 



