APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. 
__ The enemy having come out so 
far as the nearest hill to the ridge, 
began to opena fire of matchlocks 
upon our party as they proceeded 
up the heights. On our gaining 
possession of a high part of the 
ridge, the enemy evacuated their 
position upon the opposite hill, 
and being instantaneously pur- 
sued by our troops, they fled suc- 
cessively over the whole of the 
hills between the ridge and their 
stockade, which appearing to me 
too strong to attempt without the 
assistance of our guns, I resolved 
to wait until the artillery came up. 
The six-pounders opened upon 
the place about four o'clock p. m. 
and I was in hopes that as the 
wall appeared to be composed only 
of loose stones, it might have been 
laid open before dusk ; but after 
firing for about an hour, from a 
distance of about five hundred 
yards, only a small part of the 
wall came down. 
Having resolved to move the 
battery to a nearer distance, the 
following morning the pioneers 
were employed during the day in 
making fascines and gabions for 
that purpose. 
About a quarter of an hour, 
however, before sun-rise the fol- 
lowing morning (the 29th) the 
enemy came down in great num- 
bers from the Mungoo-ka-Dhar, 
with an apparent intention of 
forcing my position on the ridge, 
and also turning my left, so as to 
surround it. Iam happy to add, 
that, in consequence of the warm 
reception they received from our 
troops they were soon obliged to 
retire with loss. Having now, 
however, every reason to believe 
that Mungoo-ka-Dhar had been 
strongly reinforced, I thought it 
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advisable to-throw up a slight en- 
trenchment on my position on 
the ridge and first hill, which was 
effected about dusk. 
During the night the enemy 
evacuated the stockade on De- 
boo-ka-Tibba, which was imme- 
diately occupied by the picquets 
of the light battalion. 
The stockade is situated ona 
steep rocky eminence, very diffi- 
cult of access on all sides, but par- 
ticularly so in front, where it is 
almost perpendicular. The wall 
is ten feet high on the outside, 
and four feet thick, composed of 
loose stones, extremely well built, 
and three sides of it are surround- 
ed by ahigh bamboo fence, at the 
distance of two feet from the out- 
side of the wall; within it is a 
Pucha Mhut. 
The position of the enemy at 
Mungoo-ka-Dhar appears to be 
nearly two miles from my post, 
and the road to it very difficult, 
as well from unevenness as from 
ascent. I have also been inform- 
ed, that the enemy have thrown 
up stone breast-works and other 
obstacles at different parts of the 
road. 
I have the honour to enclose'a 
correct return of our casualties ;* 
those of the enemy, from the best 
intelligence I have been able to 
rocure, amount to one hundred 
and fifty killed, and about two 
hundred and fifty wounded. I had 
the pleasure yesterday to send in 
two prisoners from Deboo-ka- 
Tibba, and this day another, who 
was wounded in the affair of the 
29th. 
The conduct of the officers and 
* Published in the London Ga- 
zette of 19th August last. 
