APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. 
great, and apparently insurmount- 
able, difficulties would occur in 
provisioning the troops, on so 
many routes, with our scanty 
means of conveyance, and I de- 
termined in consequence on a mo- 
dification of the plan. This al- 
teration consisted chiefly in dis- 
posing the march of the troops in 
such a manner, that the Ist and 
2nd divisions, the 3rd and 4th, the 
6th and 7th, should arrive on the 
same line, and, at certain conve- 
nient points, unite together ; an 
arrangement which, I am happy 
to say, brought the supplying of 
the army within our means, and 
laid the ground work of a suc- 
cessful progress towards the se- 
veral assigned places of destina- 
tion above the hills. 
. On the Ist of February I learnt, 
by a letter of the 30th of January, 
from Major Hook, that the lst 
division, under the command of 
that officer, had reached Ganni- 
tenne, situate at the fuot of the 
Balani Mountains, and on the 
great road leading through the 
Pass or Gravet of that name to- 
wards the city of Candy. 
Lieutenant O’Connell, with the 
2nd division, was close in the rear, 
advancing to the same point, from 
which Major Hook was then to 
diverge to the left towards Wey- 
wode, in the seven Korles, to co- 
operate with Captain De Bussche, 
already in that quarter, with a 
small force, formed to supply the 
absence of the auxiliary corps, 
originally expected from Ma- 
dras. 
No serious opposition was made 
to the advance of these divisions. 
The first Adikar of the King of 
Candy, by name Molligodde, 
brother to the Dessave of the 
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three Korles, who had previously 
come over to the British territory, 
and himself Dessave of the four 
Korles, kept hovering in front of 
Major Hook’s march, with some 
followers, but had intimated, both 
to Major Hook and Mr. D’Oyley, 
that he was desirous to join the 
British standard, and was only 
prevented from doing so by his 
apprehension for the fate of his 
family, who were under the 
King’s power in the capital, but 
whose liberation or escape he ex= 
pected as soon as thetroopsshould 
advance sufficiently near to Candy; 
to induce the King to retire from 
that place; he further gave it to 
be understood, that although he 
was obliged to keep up the ap- 
pearance of firing, he would do 
no harm; and in all these points, 
although his assurances could not 
in prudence be fully confided in 
at the time, he afterwards faith- 
fully kept his word. 
In the evening of this day (the 
Ist of February) I left Colombo 
to join the army, and proceeded 
by the route of Avissahavelle 
(usually called Sittawakka) and 
through the three and four Korles 
towards Lieut.-Colonel O’Con- 
nell’s campat Ganniteynne. While 
at Kooroonagodde, on the 3rd of 
February, a letter from the Lieut.- 
Colonel, dated at Ganniteyone, on 
the 2ad, informed, thatthe advance 
of that division, under Major 
Moffatt, of the 1st Ceylon regi- 
ment, having been detached to 
support a patrole which was con- 
ceived to be in danger, had ad- 
vanced so near the fortified post 
which commands tlie Balani. Pass, 
that it was deemed advisable to 
attack it: and it had been carried, 
after a trifling opposition. 
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