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up the hill as to be out of reach of the horfe, and the reft 
of the infantry in the plain; Bafha Hezekias was on the round | 
hill juft behind the center, where the king had placed him- 
felf, and Guebra Mafcal nearly where he ftood before. 
THE army now made an appearance of a large fection of | 
an amphitheatre. I obferved the king had pulled off the 
diadem, or white fillet he wears for diftin¢tion, and: was 
very intent upon renewing the engagement: the Begemder 
troops were forming, with great alertnefs, about half a mile 
below, being reinforced from time totime. The king-order-. 
ed his drums to beat, and his trumpets to found, to inform 
the enemy he was ready; but they did not anfwer, or advance: 
foon after (it being near three o’clock) the weather became 
overcatft, and cold, on which the troops of Begemder beata re- 
treat; the king, very foon after, did the fame, and returned 
to the camp without further moleftation ; only that coming 
near a rock which projected into the valley, (not far diftant 
from.the camp) a multitude of peafants belonging to Ma- 
riam-Ohha, threw down a fhower of ftones from their hands 
and flings, which hurt feveral. The king ordered them to 
be fired at, though they were a great diftance off, and pafled 
on: but Guebra Mafcal commanding about fifty men to 
run brifkly up the hill, on each fide of the rock, gave them 
two difcharges at a lefs diftance, which killed or wounded 
many, and made the_reft difappear in a moment. | 
I poust that my reader will be more than fufficiently 
tired with the detail of this fecond battle of Serbraxos; but, 
as it was a very remarkable incident in my life, I could not 
omit it as far as I faw it myfelf, and fupprefling any one part 
of it would have involved the reft in a confufion, with which 
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