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refinance, and driving ofF whole- villages of.- men, women,, 

 and children, whom lie lent into Arabia,. or India, to be fold- 

 as ilaves. 



It was a matter of great difficulty for the king ofAdel 

 to perfuade the Abymnians that MaiTndi acted without his 

 mitigation; The young king was one who could not dif- 

 tinguifh Adei from Arar, or Mahomet's army from MafTudi's. 

 He bore with very great impatience the exceiTes every year 

 committed by the latter; but he was over-ruled by his no- 

 bility at home, and his thoughts turned as much as poffible 

 to hunting, to which he willingly gave himfelf up ; and, 

 tho' but fifteen years of age, was the perfon, in all Abyf- 

 fmia, moft dexterous at managing his arms. At laft, being 

 arrived at the age of feventeen, and returning from having 

 obferved a very fucc.efsful expedition made by Mafrudi a- 

 gainfl his territories, he ordered Za Saluce, his firfl miniiter, 

 commander in chief, and governor of Anihara, to raife the 

 whole forces to the fouthward, while he himfelf collected 

 the nobility in An got and Tigrc. With thofe, as foon as the 

 rainy feafon was over, he defcended into the kingdom of 

 AdeL 



The king of Adel had been forced into this war, yet, like a 

 wife prince, he was not unprepared for it. He had advanced 

 directly towards the king, but had not palled his frontiers. 

 Some inhabitants of a village called Amo, all Mahometans,, 

 but tributary to the king of Abyffinia, had murdered the 

 governor the king had fet over them. Ifcander marched 

 directly to deltroy it, which he had no fooner aecomplimed,, 

 than the Moorifh army prefented itfelf. The battle was 

 maintained obftinately on both lides, till the troops under- 



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