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number; they received the difcharge of his whole mufque= 
‘try in two vollies, fo near that | fearce believe there was one 
fhot that did not take place on man or horfe. A great cry 
from the bank at the fame time added to their panic, which 
was anfwered by the king’s troops, who immediately char- 
ged them as before, as they wheeled-half round to the lefr 
They were purfued, for a.{mall diftance, by fome of. the 
troops that. had not engaged in the morning; and it was 
eafy to perceive their diforder was. real, and that they were 
not likely to rally. By this laft difcharge, Powuflen was 
flightly. wounded, and his men were plainly feen hurrying 
him off-the field. Inthe very inftant the rebels turned their 
backs, Kefla Yafous ordered all the troops, borfe and foot, to: 
file off down. the narrow road into the valley, behind the: 
heavy-armed horfe, who kept their ground before the road, 
and thereto join the king: 
For my part, I thought the affair was over, when, laft of: 
all, we, too, with our heavy horfes, defcended the road,. 
where we found Guebra Mafcal, (whofe activity. was. 
above all praife) drawn up on our right along the foot of 
the bank, (with a large pool-of water in his front) flanking” 
the valley, the king drawn up in the narroweft part of it,. 
and juft engaged with the troops of Lafta and. Begemder, 
that had gone round by the jun¢tion of the rivers. Thefe 
had loft, as. we afterwards heard, much time in giving their 
horfes water. They were, however, the more refrefhed. 
when they did come, and though-they had received.a fire. 
frora the troops on the round hill, and from: thofe pofted 
on the rocky ground, on the other fide of the valley, they 
had beat the king and cna aie back, and wounded him. 
in the thigh,. 
