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Demetrius, finding the enemy's parties fcattered wide wa- 

 fting the country, fell upon them, and flew many, till he had 

 arrived near the middle of their body, when theGalla, ufed 

 to fuch expeditions, poured in from all fides, and prefently 

 united. Demetrius, furrounded on ©very fide, was. flam, 

 fighting to the laft in the moll defperate manner, and his 

 party, muck diminifhed in number, fled in a manner that 

 could not be miftaken for ftratagem. They were clofely 

 purfued, and followed into the pafs by the Galla, who. 

 thought they had thus entirely cut them offfrom Amhara. , 

 But they were foon received by a clofe fire from the foot a- 

 mong the bufhes, and by the lances that mingled with % 

 them from every fide of the mountain.. 



The king, upon the firfl noife of the mufquetry, advan- 

 ced quickly with his horfe, and met the Galla,in the height 

 of their confufion, flying back again into the plain. Here 

 they fell an eafy facrifice to the frefh troops led by Yafous* 

 and to the peafants y exafperated by the havoc they before 

 had made in the country. Of the enemy, about 6000 men: 

 fell this day on the field ; a few were brought to Gondar, 

 and, in contempt, fold for flaves. Few on the king's fide 

 were flain, excepting thofe that fell with Demetrius, the ac- 

 count of whofe death the king heard without any figns o£ 

 regret : — " I told the man (fays the king) that he fhould fhew. 

 M himfelf and retire ; if I wanted a viclory I would have led 

 " the army in perfon ; 1 march againit tlie Galla, not as a* 

 " king, but as an executioner,, becaufe my aim is to extir- 

 •* pate them." 



Although Yafous was ftedfaft in his own opinion as to* 

 kis religion, or, as it may be more properly called, the dif- 



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