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Ma ho me tv called. Gragne, (which fignifies left-handed) com- . 

 manded this army. He was governor of Zeyla, and had 

 .promoted the league with the.Turkifh bajthas. on the coail 

 of Arabia ; and, having now given the king a check in his 

 firft enterprife, he refqlved to carry on the war with him in 

 a way that mould produce fonaethirjg decifivc. He remain- 

 ed then quiet- two years at home, fent all the prifoners he 

 had made in the laft expedition to Mecca, and to the Turk- 

 ifh powers on the coaft, and required from them in return 

 the number, of troops flipulated, with; attain of portable ar- 

 tillery, which was punctually furniflied," while a large body, 

 of janizaries croffed over and joined the Moorijh army. 

 Mahomet led thefe troops ftraight into Fatigar, which he 

 over-ran, as he did the two other neighbouring provinces 

 Ifat and DawarOj burning and laying wafte the whole coun- 

 try, and driving, as was his ufual manner, immenfe num-. 

 bers of the inhabitants, whom the fword had fpared, back 

 with him to Adel.- 



The next year, Mahomet marched from Adel directly iii«,. 

 to Dawaro, committing the fame exceiTes. The king T who- 

 iaw in defpair that total ruin- threatened his whole country, 

 and that there were no hopes but in a battle, met the Moor- 

 ifh army at If ras, very much inferior to them in every fort 

 of appointment. The battle was fought ill May 1528 ; the 

 king was defeated, and Iilam Segued, his firft minifter, who 

 commanded, the army that day, with many of his principal 

 officers, were flain upon the fpot, and the Mcarifh army 

 took poffeffion of Shoa. David retreated, with his broken 

 army into Amhara, and encamped at Hegu, thinking to 

 procure reinforcements during the bad weather, but Gragne 

 ■was too near to give him time for this. He entered Amhara, 



deilroying 



