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ed up with dead bodies, after the defeat of the king's wing 

 at the battle of Serbraxos. 



At half pad three we refumed our journey. A fharp and 

 pyramidal mountain (lands alone in the middle of the 

 plain, prefenting its high fharp top through the trees, and 

 making here a very pi(5lurefque and uncommon appearance; 

 it is called Gutch, and feemed to be diftant from us about 

 fix miles due North. A few minutes after this we pafTed a 

 fmall ftfeam called Agam-Ohha, or the Brook of JelTamine; 

 from a beautiful fpec es of that fhrub, very frequent here» 

 and on the fides of the fmall ftreams in the province of 

 Sire. 



A FEW minutes paft four we entered a thick wood, wind- 

 ing round a hill, in a fouth-eall dircdion, to get into the 

 plain below, where we were furrounded by a great mul- 

 titude of men, armed with lances, fhields, flings, and large 

 clubs or fticks, who rained a fliower of flones towards us, 

 as i may fay ; for they were at fuch a dirtance, that all of 

 them fell greatly flaort of us. "Whether this was owing to 

 fear, or not, we did not know ; but fuppofing that it was 

 we thought it our interell to keep it up as much as poffible. 

 I therefore ordered two fliots to be fired over their heads ; 

 not vv^ith any intention to hurt them, but to kt them hear, 

 by the balls whiftling among the leaves of the trees, that 

 our guns carried farther than any of their flings ; and 

 that, diftant as they then were, tley were not in fafety, 

 if we had a difpofition to do them harm. Ihcv Item- 

 ed to underfland our meaning, by gliding through among 

 the bufnes, and appearing at the top ol- a hill larther ofl^, 

 where they continued hooping and crying, and making 



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