Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 12.21.11

12.21.11

but he was so ashamed to have done nothing, and so angry and passionate, that instead of listening to what they said, he put his horse on a gallop ; when at that very moment he was overtaken by the messenger, and brought back. By this time the sun was in the meridian ; and the heat had become so insufferable, that Mustapha-qhan who felt the consequences of it, having considered that numbers of his people were wounded, numbers of his bravest friends killed, the rest disheartened, and fainting with heat, did not think proper to renew the attack ; but retired at a slow pace to his camp, which was upon the little Pûn-pûn at less than a cosse distance from the enemy. Arrived there, he ordered cannon to be planted in the mango-groves, and an incessant fire to be made on the intrenchment.