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The balha's body was carried upon a mule out of the 

 field, and (truck a terror into all the Mahometans wherever 

 it pafTed. It no fooner entered Dobarwa than it was obli- 

 ged to be carried out at the other end of the town. Sertza 

 Denghel was not one that {lumbered upon a victory. He 

 entered Dobarwa fword in hand, putting all the Pagans and 

 Mahometans that fell in his way to death, and, in this man- 

 ner, purfued them to the frontiers of Mafuah, leaving many 

 to die for want of water in that deferu 



The king, in honour of this brave action performed by 

 Robel, ordered what follows to be writ in letters of gold, 

 and inferted in the records of the kingdom : " Robel, fer> 

 " vant to Sertza Denghel, and fon to Menetcheli, flew aTurk^. 

 • •■' iih baflia on hprfeback with a common knife." 



Sertza Denghel, having thus delivered himfelf from the 

 Hioft formidable of his enemies, marched through Gojam 

 again into Narea, extirpating, all the way he went, the Galla 

 that obftructed his way to that ftate; He left an additional 

 number of priefts and monks to inflruct them in the Chrift- 

 ian religion ; though there are fome hiflorians of thi$ 

 reign who pretend that it was not till this fecond vint tha£ 

 Narea was converted.. 



However this may be, victory had everywhere attended 

 his Heps, and he was now preparing to chaflife the mak 

 contents at Damot,. when he was accofted by a prieft, famous 

 for his holinefs and talent for divination, who warned 

 him not to undertake that war. But the king, expreffc 

 ing his contempt of both the meflage and meflenger, de- 

 ckred his fixed refoluuon. tot invade. Damot without delay^ 



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