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GH A-P. VII.^ 



King- offers Battle t^ the Rebels in the Plain — Defer ipt'ion of the Second 

 Battle of Serbraxos — Rafo CondnEl;, and narrow Efcape of the King 

 ~—Both Armies keep the Gromidi 



THE whole evening of the 19th of May was fpent in 

 feftivity and joy ; a prophet from fome part in Dem- 

 bea had foretold the defeat of king Theodoras, and what 

 was much more interefling, two large droves of cattle, the 

 one from BelelTen, near Mariam-Ohha, the other from Dem- 

 bea, were driven that day into the camp. Ras Michael, 

 who knew the value of to-morrow, fpared nothing that 

 might refrefh the -troops this day. The king and he, Ozo- 

 ro Erther, and Ozoro Alrafli, Refla Yafous, and the Abuna 

 himfelf,gave each of them entertainments to the principal 

 oflicers of the army, and all thofe who were likely to bear 

 the burden of the enfuing conflid. The foldiers were in 

 great fpirit, but it was now very generally known that the 



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