THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 693; 



as from a citadel, aad foon obliged the left wing of the 

 rebels to retreat. But the king, Kefla Yafous, and .Aibo 

 on the right, were roughly handled by the horfe of Lalta, 

 and would have been totally defeated, the king and Lubo 

 having already left the field, had not Kefla Yafous brought 

 up a reinforcement of the men of Sire andTemben, and re- 

 trieved the day, at leaft brouglit things upon an equal 

 footing.- 



Fasil, with the hoi-fe of Foggora and Damot, and a'. 

 prodigious body of the Djawi and Pagan Galla, defirous to 

 Ihew his confequence, and confirm himfelf in his ill -got 

 government by his perfonal behaviour, attacked the Be- 

 gemder horfe in the center fo irrefiftibly, that he not only 

 broke through them in feveral places, but thi-ew the whole 

 body into a Ihameful flight. Mariam Barea himfelf was 

 wounded in endeavouring to Hop them, and hurried away, 

 in fpite of his inclination, crying out in great agony, " Is 

 there not one in my army that will flay and fee me die 

 like the fon of Kalmati Ayo ?" It was all in vain; Pbwuflen, 

 and a number of hia own.ofEcers, furrounding him, dragged 

 him as it were by force out of the field. The country be- 

 hind Nefas Mufa is wild, and cut with deep gullies, and the 

 woods almoft impenetrable ; they were therefore quickly* 

 out of the enemy's purfuit, and fafe, as they thought, under 

 the proteaion of the Woollo Galla. The whole army of 

 Begemder was difperfed, and Michael early forbade further 

 purfuit.. 



The account of this battle, and what preceded it, from tho 

 mu'-der of the prince of Zague, is not in the annals or hif- 

 tory of Abyffinia, which 1 have hitherto followed;, at leaft it 



has 



