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to Cundapore, and all communication being now cut on" with 

 general Mathews, captain Torriano conceived a design of saving 

 Cundapore, as no enemy had been seen when the last fugitives 

 left the place. But it was soon rendered fruitless by still later 

 intelligence, that the enemy were in possesion of it. This being 

 the case, boats and canoes were in constant attendance on the 

 south side of Onore river, to bring over such of the fugitives from 

 Cundapore as escaped the villagers, who every where turned out 

 against them: fortunately many arrived safe. The commanding 

 officer, to alleviate their situation, and encourage a more soldier- 

 like behaviour, made each European a present of a little money, 

 to procure the necessaries they stood so much in need of. 



Early on the 21st six Europeans appearing on the south bank 

 of the river, a boat was sent to bring them over. These with a 

 larger party, under the command of cornet Rowland, had escaped 

 in one of the boats originally dispatched by captain Torriano with 

 a view to the repossession of Cundapore, which proving leaky, 

 obliged them to land the preceding evening, some miles below 

 Onore, whither they were now on their march. Boats were im- 

 mediately sent over for their accommodation, and in a few hours 

 they appeared marching in regular order to the water side ; with 

 Missauber, a subahdar, at their head. The cornet being ill, the 

 subahdar had procured him a litter, in which he accompanied the 

 detachment. This circumstance is particularly mentioned, be- 

 cause, at this critical period, it was a happy demonstration that 

 the contagion from our loss of Ilyder-nuggur, which had already 

 infected the country, had there been checked. 



The exertions of the Onore garrison, which had been ever 



