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Ir not very ufeful, yet it may, however, be thought cu- 
rious, to know the difpofition of a barbarous army ready to 
engage in a pitched battle as this was. Kefla Yafous, who 
commanded the left-wing under the king, \aced his ca- 
valry in a line to the opening of the road down into the val- 
ley; between every two mufquets were men armed with 
lances and fhields ; then, at a particular diftance, clofe be- 
fore this line of horfe, was a body of lances, and mufquets, — 
or fometimes either of them, in feveral lines, or, as they ap- 
peared, a round body of foldiers, ftanding together without 
any order at all; then another line of horfe, with men be- 
tween, alternately as before ; then another round corps of 
lances and mufquets, advanced juft before the line of horfe, 
and fo on tothe end of the divifion. 
I xnow nothing of the difpofition of the reft of the ar= 
my, nor the ground they were en gaged on; that where we 
flood was as perfect a plain as that commonly chofen to 
run racés upon, and fo I believe was the reft, only floping 
more to the lake Tzana. | 
Tue king’s infantry was drawn up in one line, having a 
mufqueteer between every two men, with lances and fhields. 
Immediately in the center was the black horfe, and the 
Moors of Kas el Feel, with their libds, difpofed on each of 
their flanks. Immediately behind thefe was. the king im 
perfon, with a large body of young nobility and great of- 
ficers of ftate, about him. On the right and left flank of the - 
line, a little in the rear, were all the reft of the king’s horfe, 
divided into two large bodies, Guebra Mafcal hid in the bank 4 
‘en our left at right angles with the line, enfilading, as Lhave 
already 
