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niimbei-; they received the difcharge of his whole mufque- 

 try in two vol lies, fo near that I fcarce believe there was one 

 fhot that did not take place on man or horfe. A great cry 

 from the bank at the fame time added to their panic, which 

 was aiifwered by the king's troops, who immediately char- 

 ged them as before, ns they wheeled half round to the left. 

 They were purfued, for a fmail' diltance, by fome of the 

 troops that had not engaged in the morning, and it was 

 eafy to perceive their diforder was real, and thuv r^ey were 

 not likely to rally. By this lall difcharge, PowuiTen war 

 ilightly wounded, and his men were plainly feen hurrying 

 him ofi'the field. In the very inflant the rebels turned their, 

 backs, Kefla Yafous ordered all the troops, horfe and foot, to 

 file off down the narrow road into the valley, behind the 

 heavy, armed horfe, who kept their ground before the road, 

 and there to join the king^ 



For my part, I thought the affair was over, when, lall of 

 all, we, too, with our heavy horfes, defcended the road, 

 where we found Guebra Mafcal, (whofe adlivity was 

 above all praife) drawn up on our right along the foot of 

 the bank, (with a large pool of water in his front) flanking 

 the valley, the king drawn up in the narroweft part of it, 

 and juft engaged with the troops of Lafla and Begemder, 

 that had gone round by the jundtion of the rivers. Thefe 

 had loft, as we afterwards heard, much time in giving their 

 horfes water. They were, however, the more refrelhed 

 when they did come, and thooigh they had received a fire 

 from the troops on the round hill, and from thofe pofted 

 on the rocky grotmd, on the other fide of the valley, they 

 had beat the king and Engedan back, and wounded him 

 in the thigh. 



