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already faid, the whole line of our infantry; this will be 
_eafily underftood by confulting the plan where H H, 
G G, F, and I, reprefent the difpofition that I have now def- 
cribed. | 
Ir was full half an hour after the king had formed be- 
fore the army of Begemder made any motion. The Ras 
firft faw them from the hill, and made a fignal, by beating 
his drums and blowing his trumpets ; this was immediately 
anfwered by all the drums and trumpets of the left wing, 
and for the {pace of a minute, a thick cloud of duft (like the 
{moke of a large city on fire) appeared on the fide of Korreva, 
occafioned, as the day before, by the Begemder troops mount- 
ing on horfeback ; the ground where they were encamped 
- being trodden into powder, by fuch a number of men and 
- horfe paffing over it fo often, and now raifed by the mo- 
tion of the horfes feet, was whirled round by a very moder- 
ate breeze, that blew fteadily ; it every minute increafed 
in darknefs, and affumed various fhapes and forms, of towers 
ceaftles, and battlements, as fancy fuggefted. In the middle,. 
- of this great cloud we began to perceive indiftin@ly part of 
the horfemen, then a much greater number, and the figure 
of the horfes more accurately defined, which came moving 
" majeftically upon us, fometimes partially feen, at other times 
concealed by being wrapt up in clouds and darknefs; the 
whole made a moft extraordinary, but truly picturefque ap- 
pearance. 
I was fo ftruck with this, that I could not help faying: 
to Billetana Gueta Ammonios, who commanded the horfe 
under me, Is not that a glorious fight Ammonios! who, 
| : 3 that 
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