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ever, fcarce thrown, afide their arms, difpofed of their wound- 

 ed in proper places, and begun to afTuage their thirfl after 

 the toils of the aflault, when the Abyflinian horfe, breaking 

 through the covert, came fwiftly upon them, unable either 

 to fight or to fly, and the whole body of them was cut. to 

 pieces without one man efcaping. 



The king, upon return of his troops, began to confider,; 

 and, by combining various circumftances in his mind, to 

 mfpeet flrongly, . that, from the Moors attacking him, as>, 

 they had for fome time, lately done, always in the moll un- 

 favourable circumftances, there mufl be fome. intelligence, 

 between his camp and that of the enemy. Upon examine 

 ing more particularly into the grounds of this fufpicion^, 

 three men of Hararfwho had long attended the army as fpies) 

 were discovered, and being convidled, were carried out, : and 

 their heads cut off at the entrance of the camp ; after which 

 the king,* who now found himfelf without an enemy in 

 thefe parts, flruck his tents, and returned to Gaza in Da-- 

 waro. 



This movement of Amda Sion's had more the appearance 

 of opening a campaign than the clofmg of one, and occa- 

 fioned .great difcontent among the foldiers, who had done: 

 their bufinefs, and were without an enemy, juft at that timer 

 that the rains fall fo heavy, and the country becomes fo un- 

 wholefome as to make it unadvifable to keep the field. . 

 They, therefore, remonflrated by their officers to the king, , 

 that they mufl return to their houfes for the feveral months? 

 of winter which were to follow ; and that, after the fatigues,, 

 dangers, and hardships they had undergone for fo many? 

 3, months,,, 



