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you are a man.” “ Look at me, you drunken flave, faid I, 
armed, or unarmed, and fay, it is not a boaft.if 1 count 
myfelf at all times a better man than you. Away to your 
hiding -hole again, and for your life appear within my 
reach. Away! you are not now, as the other day, before the ~ 
_ king.” The man cried out in a tranfport of impatience, “ By 
G-d, you don’t know what Imean; but here they all come, 
ftand firm, if you are men ;” and faying this, he ran nimbly 
off, and hid himfelf below the bank, with his lighted 
match in one hand, and all ready. | 
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Ir is proper, for connection’s fake, though I did not my- 
felf fee it, to relate what had happened to the king, whe had 
_ purfued the Begemder horfe to a very confiderable diftance, 
and was then at 8S in the plan, when the whole army of 
the rebels that had not engaged, obferving the refiftance 
made by Powuffen, and partof the divifion which they had 
left, turned fuddenly back from their flight, and atR R 
nearly furrounded the king and his cavalry, whom they 
- had now driven to the very edge of the fteepeft part of the 
bank of the Mariam. Kefla Yafous’s arrival, indeed, and 
his exerting himfelf to the utmoft, fighting with his own 
hand like any common foldier, had brought fome relief; 
yet as frefh horfe came in, there can be little doubt at the 
end, that the king muft have been cither flain or taken 
prifoner, if Sertza Denghel, a young man of Amhara, a re- 
lation of Gufho, and who had a {mall poft in the palace, 
had not difmounted, and offered to lead the king’s horfe 
down the fteepeft of the banks into the river. To this, how- 
‘ever, he received an abfolute refufal. “I fhall die here this 
day, fays the king, but while I have a man left, will never 
turn my back upon the rebels.” Sertza Denghel hearing 
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