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Demetrius, finding the enemy's pa«ies foatrer^d widg wa-. 

 fting the country, fell upon thcrn, and flew many, till he had 

 arfivr-d near the middle of their body, when theGalla, ufed: 

 to fuch expeditions, poured in from all fides, and prefcntly 

 united, Demetrius, furrounded on- every fide, was flain, 

 fighting to the laft in the moll defpcrate manner, and his 

 party, mvich diminiflied in number, fled in a manner that 

 could not be miflaken for flratagem. They were clofely 

 purfued, and followed into the pafs by the Galla, who- 

 thought they had thus entirely cut them off from Amhara. 

 But they were, loan received. by a^clofe fire from the foot a-, 

 mong the bulhes, and by the lances that mingled withi 

 them from every fide of the mountain.. 



The king, upon the fiirft naife of the mufqiietry, advan*- 

 ced quickly with his horfe, and met the Galla, in the height, 

 of their confufion, flying back again into the plain. Here- 

 they fell an eafy facrifice to the frefli troops led by Yafous^, 

 and to the peafants, exafperated by the havoc they before 

 had made in the country. Gf the enemy, about 6000 mert' 

 fell this day on the field ; a few were brought to Gondar,. 

 and, in contempt, fold for flaves. Few on the king's fide 

 were flain, excepting thofe that fell with Demetrius, the ac* 

 count of whofe death the king heard without any figns of 

 regret : — " I told the man (fays the king) that he fhould fhew 

 ** himfclf and retire ; if I wanted a victory I would have led^ 

 " the army in perfon ; I march againfl: the Galla, not as a, 

 ** king, but as an executioner,, becaufe my aim is to extir- 

 " pate them." 



Although Yafous was fledfafl: in his own opinion as to- 

 his religion, or, as it may be more properly called, the dif^ 



2 putes. 



