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flain returned back without feeing Ayto Tesfos’s camp, 
being afraidthat fome other trap might ftill be in their 
way. 
In the morning of the 22d, we found that the flain were 
men of Begemder and Latta. Tesfos, it feems, had been in 
Powuffen’s camp when he faw the fire hghted on the hill, 
and thence had provided an additional number of troops to 
attack Kefla Yafous before he had done his bufinefs, but in 
this he mifcarried. Tesfos’s party was thus totally.deftroyed 
and difperfed, his mules flaughtered, and his provifions 
- fpoiled. About thirty of Kefla Yafous’s infantry, however, 
loft their lives by ftaying behind, and intoxicating themfelves - — 
with hquor. Of the horfe, not a man was either killed or 
wounded. I was the only unfortunate perfon; and Provi- 
dence had feemed to warn-me of my danger the day before, 
for pafling then that rock which projected into the valley, 
the fire giving perfect light, the multitude aflembled above, 
and prepared for that purpofe, poured down upon us fuch a 
' fhower of arrows, ftones, billets of wood, and broken jars, as 
is not ‘to be imagined. Of thefe a ftone gave me a very 
violent blow upon my left arm, while a fmall fragment 
of the bottom of a jar, or pitcher, {truck me on the creft of 
my helmet, and occafioned fuch a concuilion as to deprive 
me fora time of all recollection, fo that, when lying in my 
tent at no great diftance, I did not remember to have heard 
Guebra Mafcai’s difcharge. I certainly had fome prefaging 
that mifchief was to happen me, for pafling that rock, jutt 
before we entered Tesfos’s camp, I defired Tecla, when I re- 
turned, to allow fifty men to proceed up the hill and 
cut thofe people in pieces who had flationed themfelves fo 
inconveniently ; but he would not confent, being defirous 
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