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heels. Finally, all he defired of them was, that thofe who 

 would not fight mould only {land as fpectators, but not 

 leave their places. As no fign of content or conviction was 

 returned, the king, feeing that all was lofl if they difbanded, 

 the enemy being juft ready to engage, ordered his mailer 

 of the horfe, and five others, to attack the left wing of the 

 enemy, while he, with a fmall part of his fervants and houfe- 

 hold, did the fame on the right. 



The Abymnian hiftory, feldom juft to the memory of indi- 

 viduals, hath yet, in this inftance, (almoft a lingle one), prefer- 

 red the names of thefe brave men. The firft was Zana Asfe- 

 ri ; the fecond, Tecla ; the third, Wanag Araad ; the fourth,, 

 Saif Segued, (one of the king's fons ;) the fifth, Badel Waliz ; 

 and the fixth, Kedami. Thefe, as is fuppofed, with their at- 

 tendants and fervants, (though hiilory is filent but as to the 

 fix) fell furioufly on the left of the Mahometan army. 



The king, at the firft onfet, killed, with his own hand,, 

 the two leaders of the right wing ; and his fon, Saif Segued, 

 having alfo flain another conliderable officer on the left, a 

 panic feized both thefe bodies of Moors, and the army ap- 

 parently began, at one and the fame time, to waver ; On 

 which the Abyfiinians, now afhamed of their conduct, and 

 perceiving the king's danger, with a great fhout fell furi- 

 oufly upon the enemy. The whole Moorifh army having, by 

 this time, joined, the battle was fought with great obilinacy 

 on both fides, till firft the center, then the left wing of die 

 Moors, was broken and difperfcd; but the right, confiding 

 chiefly of flrangers from Arabia, kept together, and, not 

 knowing the country, retired into a narrow deep valley 



furrounded 



