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advanced to the ground where Saleh king of Mara had ga- 

 thered the fcattered remains of his once powerful army, but 

 now overcome with heat, difpirited by their defeat, and 

 worn out by the fatigues of a long and obftinate engage- 

 ment, all that remained of thefe unfortunate troops were 

 ftrowed upon the ground, lapping water like beafts, their 

 only comfort that remained, equally incapable of fighting 

 or flying. The mailer of the horfe, in great vigour and 

 ftrength from his late refrefhments and recent victory, had 

 no trouble with thefe unfortunate people but to direct their 

 execution, and this was performed by the foldiers with all 

 the rage and cruelty that a difference of religion could pof- 

 fibly infpire. For, after the king's fpeech of the 9th of 

 June, in which he upbraided them with breach of their 

 oath, and that they were flow in avenging the blood of 

 their brethren and priefls wantonly flain by the Moors, every 

 man in the army meafured the exactnefs with which he 

 acquitted himfelf of the facrament at the Hawafh v only by 

 the quantity of blood that he could ftied. Weary at laft 

 with butchery, a few were taken prifoners, and among 

 thefe was Saleh king of Mara. It was evening before the 

 king returned from the flaughter of the right wing ; and it 

 was night when the foldiers, as fatigued with plundering 

 as with fighting, returned to the camp. 



The next morning, he heard of the fuccefs of his cavalry 

 under the mafter of the horfe, who joined him before mid- 

 day. The unfortunate Saleh was, in fight of the whole 

 army, brought before the king, cloathed in the diftinguifh- 

 ed habit and marks of his dignity in which he had fought 

 the day before at the head of his troops ; gold chains were 

 about his arms, and a gold collar, enriched with precious 



Hones 



