Michael attempts to. enter Begemder— Fir/} Battle o f Serbraxos The
Rebels offer Battle to the King in the Plain— Armies feparated by a-
violent Storm.
YA S IN E had fcarcely returned to the camp w hen all the
tents were ftruck, and the army on its march. The Ras
and Guebra Mafcal led the van, the k in g and Guebra Chrif-
tos the center, Kafmati Kefla Yafous the re a r ; Netcho the
Fit-Auraris being about h a lf an hour’s march before us,
we proceeded along the plain without interruption ; Ayto
Engedan, With a fmall body o f horfe, was covering the k in g ’s
right flank at fome diftance. The church o f Serbraxos was
©n our left upon the fide o f a hill, and we expected to fee
the Fit-Auraris take up his ground for encamping there, as.
i t was the field o f adtion determined upon by both parties.
The. Fit-Auraris, however, firft, and then Ras Michael with
the van, palled below Serbraxos at fo brilk a pace that we
ia the center found it difficult to keep up with them.
4 A LO NG .
