already faid, the whole line o f our infantry ; this w ill be
eaiily underftood by confulting the plan where H H,
G G, F, and I, reprefent the difpofition that I have now def-
cribed.
It . was fu ll ha lf an hour after the k in g had formed before
the army o f Begemder made any motion. The Ras
firft faw them from the hill, and made a fignal, b y beating;
his drums and blowing his trumpets ; this was immediately
anfwered by all the drums and trumpets o f the left wing,
and for the fpace o f a m inute, a thick cloud o f duft (like thè
fmoke o f a large city on fire) appeared on the fide o f Korreva,.
occafioned, as the day before, by the Begemder troopsmount-
i-ng on horfeback the ground where they were encamped
being trodden into powder, by fuch a number o f ; men and
horfe palfing over it fo often, and now raifed by the motion
o f the horfes feet, was whirled, round b y a very moderate
breeze, that blew ileadily ;, it every , minute incréafed
in darknefs, and affiimed various ihapes and forms, o f towers
caftles, and battlement«, a« fan cy fuggefted.. In the middle,,
o f this great cloud, we: began to perceive indiftindily part o f
the horfemen,then a much greater number, and the figure-
o f the horfes. m ore-accurately defined, which came moving
majeftieallyupon.us, fometimes partially feen, at o ther times
concealed b y being wrapt up in clouds and darknefs ; th e
whole made a moll extraordinary,.but truly pidiurefque appearance.;.
I w a s fo ftruck with this, that I could not help faying
to Billetana Gueta Ammonios, who commanded the horie-
Tinder me, Is not that a glorious fight Ammonios! who,
thai.