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If not very ufeful, yet it may, however, be thought cu- 

 rious, to know the difpofition of a barbarous army ready to 

 engage in a pitched battle as this was. Kefla Yafou5,who 

 cominanded the left-wing under the king, placed his ca- 

 valry in a line to the opening of the road down into the val- 

 ley; between every two mufquets were men armed with 

 lances and fhields ; then, at a particular diftance, clofe be- 

 fore this line of horfe, was a body of lances, and mufquets, 

 or fometimes either of them, in feveral lines, or, as they ap- 

 peared, a round body of foldiers, Handing together without 

 any order at all ; then another line of horfe, with men be- 

 tween, alternately as before ; then another round corps of 

 lances and mufquets, advanced juft before the line of horfe, 

 and fo on to the end of the divifion. 



I KNOW nothhig of the difpofition of the reft of the ar- 

 my, nor the ground they were engaged on ; that where we 

 Hood was as perfe(5l a plain as that commionly chofen to 

 run races upon, and fo I believe was the reft, only Hoping 

 more to the lake Tzana. 



The king's infantry was drawn up in one line, having a 

 mufqueteer between every two men, with lances and fliields. 

 Immediately in the center was the black liorfe, and the 

 Moors of Ras el Feel, with their libds, difpofed on each of 

 their flanks. Immediately behind thefe was the king in 

 perfon, with a large body of young nobiUty and great of- 

 ficers of Rate, about him. On the right and left flank of tb-C 

 line, a little in the rear, were all the reft of the king's horfe, 

 divided into two large bodies, Gucbra Mafcal hid in the bank 

 on our left at right angles with the line, enfilading, as 1 have 



already 



