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Abyssinia. The other leagued tribes were the 

 Issah Soumaulee, the Wahama, the Hy Soumaulee, 

 the Debenee, and a mixed multitude of minor sub- 

 divisions that could scarcely be considered separate 

 tribes. Tajourah and Ambabboo also sent their 

 warriors ; but Ohmed Medina laughed when he said 

 they only sent ten men between them. Altogether 

 the combined forces amounted to one thousand men, 

 who were gathered together on San-karl to the west 

 of the valley of Gubard, and which I recollected to 

 have been pointed out to me by Lohitu himself as 

 the rendezvous of his tribe on such occasions. 



From San-karl they proceeded to Kuditee, and 

 slept there the night preceding the engagement. 

 The next morning they entered the country of the 

 Assa-hemerah, two thousand of whom had collected 

 upon the flank of the mountain Hyhilloo, to give 

 battle to the invaders. Lohitu led his men directly 

 to their front, and after a few personal combats, in 

 which the leader and my little Tajourah acquaint- 

 ance, Ibrahim Shatan, particularly distinguished 

 themselves, the battle became general, and in less 

 than one hour after they had first seen the Muditu, 

 the latter fled, leaving more than one half their 

 number slain. 



Of the allies, I was informed, the Issah Sou- 

 maulee lost the greatest number, one hundred 

 of them having been killed. The Debenee lost 

 sixty, the Wahama eighty, the Hy Soumaulee, 

 a very small tribe, thirty, and the Owssa Muditu 



