THE SOURCE OF THE N?LE, 174 
- Ar this time the Koccob horfe, and Yafine with his Moors 
(who had the charge of the road above till all the troops 
were gone) arrived, being as it were fhut out from. the ar- 
my, who were engaged at the other fide of the hill. Kefla 
Yafous, after defcending through the winding road into the 
valley, ordered Guebra Mafcal to pafs the pool, and ftand. 
at the. bottom of the winding road, for fear the enemy 
fhould enter at the valley on the king’s right, where the 
river ran, and-fo-cut us off from.our camp.. 
Tuis fpace he was then occupying when Yafine, firft, and! 
afterwards, our black horfe, arrived. He had, it feems, cried 
eut to me before from the fide of the pool, but I had not 
then heard him,. He now; however, repeated, Where-are 
you going, Yagoube? To die, faid I, furlily;,it is the bufinefs 
- of the day.. He then added, Kefla Yafous has croffed over 
behind Bafha Hezekias, and. fallen into the king’s rear. 
_ You know well, faid I, our poft isin his front. Then follow 
me, cried Mafcal, for by G--d I fay you fhall not take one 
ftep to-day, but I will go five before you. So faying, head- 
vanced very haftily, and when he faw the Begemder co- 
‘lours retreating before the king, he poured in a. volley,. 
which, though. at. a.confiderable diftance, turned_all to a- 
perfect flight.. 
We entered upon: the fmoke, juft before the Shoa- 
Rorfe, with no lofs, and very little refiftance, and came: 
juft into the place which we occupied in the morning.. 
Though the flight of the rebels was: apparently real, Kefla. 
Yafous would not fuffer a purfuit into the plain, but ad- 
vancing fingly before us, began to form immediately; the 
mufquetry were planted on each fide of the valley as far 
up 
