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In this battle, a fon of Gragne was taken prifoner, with 

 many other confiderable officers ; and Del Wumbarea, wife 

 of Gragne, with Nur fon of Mudgid, and a few troops, were 

 obliged to throw themfelves, for fafety, among the wilds 

 and woods of Atbara, thereby efcaping with great difficulty. 



The king had now ample revenge of all the Moorifh lead- 

 ers who had reduced his father to fuch extremities, excepting 

 Joram, who had driven the king from his hiding-place on 

 mount Tfalem, and forced him to crofs the Tacazze on foot, 

 with equal danger of being drowned or taken. This lead- 

 er had, much againft his will, been detained from the laft 

 battle, but, hoping to be ilill in time, was advancing by 

 "forced marches. The king, informed of his route, de- 

 tached a party of his army to meet him before the news 

 of the battle could reach him. They having placed them j 

 felves in ambufh, he fell into it with his army, and was cut 

 to pieces : this completed Claudius's account with his fa- 

 ther's enemies. 



During the late war with Gragne, the provinces of Ti- 

 gre and Sire had been the principal feat of the war. They 

 were immediately in the way between Dembea, Mafuah, 

 and the other Moorifh polls upon the Red Sea,; the enemy 

 had crofTed them in all directions, and a proportionable de- 

 vaflation had been the confequence. Gragne had burnt 

 Axum, and deftroyed all the churches and convents in Ti- 

 gre. The king, now delivered from this enemy, had ap- 

 plied ferioufly to repair the ravages which had been made in 

 the country. For this purpofe he marched with a fmall'army 

 towards Axum, intending afterwards an expedition againft 

 the Galla. 



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