ABSTRACT
CASTAN HOSO. 23 and how many we were, and what watch we kept; for this reason, therefore, and also to inure ourselves to labour, we armed ourselves each night, as we expected that the labour of the next winter would be even greater than that of this. Watching in this way we took two spies of the King of Zeila, who were among us, clothed like Abyssinians; from them we learned where the enemy was, and how numerous he was, and what else we wanted. When D. Christovao had learned this from them, he ordered them to be pulled to pieces by the carts: at which sentence the Abyssinians were terrified, so that no one would again run into this danger.
