I f not very ufeful, yet it may, however, be thought cuv-
rious, to know the difpofition o f a barbarous army ready to
engage in a pitched battle as this was. Kefla Yafous,who
commanded the left-wing under the king, placed his cavalry
in a line to the opening o f the road down into the valley;
between every two mufquets were men armed with
lances and ihields'; then, at a particular diitance, clofe before
this line o f horfe, was a body of-lances, andmufquets,,
or fometimes either o f them, in feveral lines, or, as they appeared,
a round body o f foldiers, Handing together without
any order at a l l ; then another line o f horfe,. with men between,
alternately as before ; then another round corps off
lances and mufquets, advanced juft before the line o f horfe„
and fo on to the end o f the divifion..
I k n o w nothing o f the- difpofition o f the reft o f the army,
nor the ground they were engaged, o n ; that where we-
flood was as perfecit a plain as that commonly chofen to
run races upon, and fo> I believe was the reft, only Hoping;
more to the lake Tzana-
T he king's infantry was drawn up in one line, having a-,
mufqueteer between every two men, with lances and Ihields;
Immediately in the center was the black horfe, and the
Moors o fR a s el Feel; with their libds, difpofed" on each o f
their flanks. Immediately behind thefe was' the k in g in
perfon, with a large body o f young nobility and great officers
o f ftate, about him. On the right and left flank o f the
line, a little in the rear, were all: the reft o f the k in g ’s horfe;
divided into two large bodies, Guebra Mafcal hid in the bank
on our left at right angles w ith th e line, enfilading, as lh a v e
already