The leading gtm opened in consequence, and a 

 shower or two of grape caused the stockade to 

 be evacuated. 



B}^ this time ihe guides having diKcovered the 

 other road, (which they reeolle<*ted would obvi- 

 ate the necessity of traversing a paddy field, 

 wliich, in the other route, it would have been re* 

 quisite to cross), tlie head of Ihe column coun- 

 termarched, and struck ofr, " right shoulders 

 forward,'* into it. 



The first obstructions removed, a tolerable 

 road, offered itself for some way, no til when 

 about to move down a short, but abrupt, descent 

 across a rid^^e of Bukit Seboona, at which the 

 two roads unite. Here felled trees were again 

 found, and a slight annoyance experienced from 

 occasiunal shots fr'Jm the stockade which com- 

 manded the point, and into which Fame of its 

 previous defenders had apparently returned. The 

 descent led the detachment to the plain of MuUi- 

 kee, where it encamped at half past ten, and be- 

 yond which it was decreed, (providentially for the 

 party), that the tirst expedition against kanning 

 should not proceed. The head man uf Mullikei, 

 named indifferently Dattoo Maialu. or Malalu 

 SuUhauu, was the spokesman of the Panghooioo, 

 a sort of confidential ofl5cer» wlio was entrusted 

 with the delivery of liis master's sentiments. A 

 party under Lieutenant Mdnes was sent to his 

 house, and, on its being found empty, it shared 

 the same <ate as several others had previously 

 done, and the torch reduced it to ashes. 



The unsparing manner in which hQUs^e after 

 house had been i-ul^jected to the flames was jus- 

 tifiable only by strong military necessity. Every 



