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loll by this, as the Moorifh army that efcaped from the en- 

 gagement, worn out with fatigue, thirft, and hunger, would 

 only rerire a fhort day's march to the water, where, finding 

 themfelves not purfued, and incumbered with the number 

 of their wounded, they would neceflarily reft themfelves ; 

 and this was precifely the fituation, in whicrrhis huntfmen 

 firft found them by the fide of a large pool of water. 



The king gave the command of this part of his army to 

 the mailer of the horfe, with orders to purfue them one 

 day farther ; whilft he, having taken a fhort refrefhment, 

 began to attack the right wing of the Arabians fhut up 

 in the valley. The king, dismounting, led the attack a- 

 gainft the front of the Arabians, who, feeing their fituation 

 now defperate, began to make every effort to get from the 

 valley into the plain. But they did not know yet upon what 

 difadvantageous ground they were engaged, till the foldiers, 

 from the rocks above, every way furrounding them, rolled 

 down immenfe Hones which paffed through them in all di- 

 rections. PrefTed, therefore, violently, by the king in their 

 front, and in the rear deftroyed by an enemy they neither 

 could fee nor refill, they fell immediately into confufion, 

 and were, to a man, Slaughtered upon the fpot ; upon which 

 the king, giving to his troops orders for a general plunder, 

 retired himfelf to his camp, and in his tent received from 

 the mailer of the horfe an account of his expedition. 



This officer had proceeded flowly, fpreading his troops as 

 wide as poffible upon the tract of the retreating enemy, to 

 give a fmaller chance for any to efcape. All directed their 

 flight towards the pool of water, and were there deftroyed 

 without mercy,till a little after fun-fet. Thepurfuers had then 



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