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following up the advantage, got possession of Ramree, Cheduba, and Sando- 

 "waij, at all of which places he left a considerable force, and then returned 

 to Oreat07ig, where he built a large stockade for the reception of his army, 

 and having completely hemmed in Myngi Kheodong, by a chain of stock- 

 ades round the capital, he sent a Vakil, by name Mohammed Hussain, for- 

 merly Kaz'i and Shahbandar of Aracan, to the British Government in 

 Calcutta, to solicit its countenance and aid, which were refused. Myngi 

 Kheodong finding himself hard pressed for provisions, and no prospect 

 of relief, resolved to attack the Mug stockade at Loungra Toungmo, to the 

 southward of the fort, which he succeeded in carrying ; three days after- 

 wards, he attacked the Mug post at Layyamr'mg, near to Babdong Ghatt 

 and was equally successful; upon which, Khyngberring assembled all his 

 forces near Chambalay, on the bank of the Khamong, about six cos from 

 Aracan, where the Burmese attacked and defeated him with great loss, 

 upon which he retreated, and shut himself up, with the remainder of his 

 forces, in the stockade at Oreatong. About this time, a reinforcement of 

 five thousand men arrived from Ava, via Rangoon, in war boats : on their 

 reaching Sandoway, they attacked the Mug stockade, and were repulsed, 

 upon which the commander, Jyngda Won, one of the former Bajas of 

 Aracan, told his Surdars, if they did not carry the place next day, he would 

 put them all to death. The following morning, at daylight, they again stormed 

 the place, which had, in the mean time, been reinforced by a party from 

 Ramree, notwithstanding which, the Burmese succeeded in carrying it. After 

 their loss of Sandoway, the Mugs left their stockades at Ramree and Che- 

 duba, and took to their war boats, and gave the Burmese battle near 

 KhuoJiimo, on the Ramree frontier, in which they were worsted. When 

 Khyngberring heard of this disaster, he sent all his disposable force 

 to their aid, who met their defeated friends near to Mribong, about one 

 day's journey on this side of Talak, where they waited the approach of the 

 victorious Burmese. Another engagement took place, in which the Mugs 



