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The bafha's body was carried upon a mule out of the 

 field, and flruck a terror into all the Mahometans wherever 

 it paired. It no fooner entered Dobarwa than it was obli- 

 ged to be carried out at the other end of the town. Sertza 

 Denghel was not one that ilumbered upon a vidory. He 

 entered Dobarwa fword in hand, putting all the Pagans and 

 Mahometans that fell in his way to death, and, in this man- 

 ner, purfued them to the frontiers of Mafuah, leaving many 

 to die for want of water in that defert. 



The king, in honour of this brave action performed by 

 Robel, ordered what follows to be writ in letters of gold, 

 and inferted in the records of the kingdom : " Robel, fer- 

 " vant to Sertza Denghel, and fon to Menetcheli, flew aTurk- 

 " ifli balha on horfeback with a common knife." 



Sertza Denghel, having thus delivered himfelf from the 

 moll formidable of his enemies, marched through Gojam 

 again into Narea, extirpating, all the way he went, the Galla 

 that obftru(5ted his way to that flate. He left an additional 

 number of priefts and monks to inftrud them in the Chrift- 

 ian reli^Tion ; though there are fome hillorians of this 

 rci^n who pretend that it was not till this fecond vifit that 

 Narea was converted^ 



However this may be, vidory had everywhere attended 

 his Heps, and he was now preparing to chailife the maU 

 contents at Damot, when he was accolled by a prieft, famous 

 for his holinefs and talent for divination, who warned 

 him not to undertake that war. But the king, expreit- 

 ing his contempt of both the melTage and meflenger, de- 

 clared his fixed refolution to invade Damot without deJay. 



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