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water force from Ava, on arriving at the mouth of the Nat-myet-nhd 

 ahove the town of Shuegu, stopped to allow all his boats to come 

 up, and determined, in the meantime, to throw into Kaung-to&n a 

 supply of ammunition. He selected three officers who volunteered 

 to perform this service with three fast-pulling boats. The Chinese 

 had only three boats, which they had constructed on their arrival at 

 Ba-md. The Burmese volunteers succeeded at daybreak one morn- 

 ing to pass through the Chinese besieging force stationed to the 

 westward of Kaung-to&n, and entered that town with the supply of 

 ammunition, as well as with presents of dresses and money, which 

 the king of Ava had sent to the governor. On the same night the 

 Chinese force made another unsuccessful attack. The governor 

 arranged with the Burmese volunteers a plan of operations, — namely, 

 that the water force from Ava should first go and attack the Chinese 

 posted at Ba-md, and then fall on the rear of the force besieging 

 Kaung-to&n, from which the governor should at the same time make 

 a sortie. The volunteers again at day-break passed through the 

 Chinese force stationed to the north-west of the town, and rejoined 

 the water force. The general of that force, entirely approving of the 

 governor of Kaung-to&n s plan of operations, now moved his fleet of 

 boats close along the western bank of the Erdwadi to Ba-md, and 

 then, landing his soldiers under a heavy fire from his boats, he 

 stormed and carried all the Chinese stockades. The Chinese general 

 before Kaung-to&n, Tsu'-ta-yeng, dispatched upwards of 1,000 horse 

 in support of Ba-md, but the Burmese general placed 2,000 troops 

 to prevent the Chinese crossing the Len-ban-gya river, and Tsu'-ta- 

 yeng recalled them. 



The Burmese general then selected three bold and trusty men to 

 pass through the Chinese force before Kaung-to&n at night, and 

 report to the governor the fall of Ba-md, and the intention of the 

 Burmese general to attack on a certain day the besieging force. On 

 the appointed day, the Burmese general, leaving one division of his 

 force at Ba-md, marched with the remaining nine divisions, and 

 attacked the Chinese before Kaung-to&n, and at the same time the 

 garrison of Kaung-to&n sallied out. The Chinese, although greatly 

 superior in numbers, were much disheartened at the loss of their 

 stockades at Ba-md, and after three days' fighting, the whole of the 

 Chinese works before Kaung-to&n also were taken. Ten of their 

 generals and more than 10,000 men were killed, and the Chinese, 

 after setting fire to the boats which they had been building, closed 

 round their general Tsu'-ta-yeng, and, taking him up, fled to their 

 force on Thin-za-nuay-lein mountain. The Burmese followed the 



