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my interceflion, and that of thofe about him, he was par- 

 doned, and the di'unkard's fafh was returned to him. 



Ever fince the middle of February, Ras Michael had re- 

 folved to march out, and give battle to the rebels encamp- 

 ed about Korreva, committing every fort of violence, and 

 burning all the villages, houfes, and barns in Dembea, 

 with the corn they contained more than what ferved for 

 their prefent ufe; but the great fuperiority of the enemy 

 in horfe had always made him delay his intention^ 



Yasine had, indeed, fucceeded in his commiflion to Sen- 

 naar, as far as it regarded the horfes. He had found the 

 Arabs encamped immediately upon the frontier at Ras el 

 Feel, and had received from them very near 200 of one 

 kind or other, of which 76 only anfwered the purpofe of 

 mounting the king's black fervants ; the others were dif- 

 tributed among the reft of the army that wanted them. But 

 they had not been equally fuccefsful in purchafing their 

 coats of mail, fourteen only of which had been brought 

 with the horfes. In order to buy the reft, the meflenger con- 

 tinued his journey to Sennaar, and with him my fervant So- 

 liman with my letters, to which, of confequence, I had as 

 yet no return. But what appeared at that time mofl; mate- 

 rial to me, Fidele Shekh of Atbara wrote to Yafme, " That, 

 there was no fear but that I fhould be well received at Sen- 

 naar, where Naffer, a young king, had fucceeded his father, 

 whom he had depofed ; but that the great difficulty was 

 to pafs between Ras el Feel and Teawa, the place of his refi- 

 dence, and from thence to the banks of the river Dender, 

 for that the Ganjar horfe of Kuara, and the Arabs their 

 friends, were at war with the Arabs of Atbara, and had 



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