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drawal of Syed Sahbau from tite confederacy. 

 The twenty -fourtlj was spent in destroying ihe 

 limberaand waggons, burying the round shot, -and 

 damaging tfie ordnance gun powder. As it was 

 thought likely that the enemy miglit make an 

 attnck on tiie stockade, the guns were kept 

 mounted till the last moineut, wln^n a few spokes 

 being knocked out of each wheel, and the cap- 

 square keys &c, Ciirried away, the carriages and 

 wheels were diagj?ed on to the top of the heap of 

 broken liraberp, kc, and portfires ^trown protuj-ely 

 through the pile** The bags of rice were pre- 

 pared for destruction in a similar manner. 



Nearly every cooly being employed in tlie 

 transport of the sick, the officers and men each 

 took as many cannister grape as the weight of 

 their arms and accoutrements would permit 

 them to carry, whilst the guns were lashed to 

 plattorms, and conveyed by coolies. There be- 

 ing no carriage for the drag-ropes, felling axes, 

 mamooties, &c, these articles were necessarily 

 abandoned. At 8 p >r» the detachment filed 

 silently out of the stockade under the guidance 

 of a bright moonlight, and, as soon as the rear 



• U Ihe " KEimiive" the fi>llo'^ ■ ■ •} ; " The pin 



ftarrtn^fls, tiimhrih, and limlifra. h - A:c; and, im- 



mc'l ■ ,. U, Wh*-- I" «f' ^ 



air. . -I ..." A\ la ' 



remnrks ii4 to the vemciij or > rsti, Tbo fHrri,iRi'iv, wlien the 



gum were retaken, w*>re todnii (l<-(. H.ird in the trxi, aiitl ilie clicckH, 

 widifOOie 01" thefpllifs and lipok* ^, hati nijHred by llic (lame?, h 



also iitatetl tliwt, wi ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' T * 



ous veil at ilip AUpi ■ itituge &f 



ii." ! ' ■:.! I I;. . . i ,^ ' : . tie wuukl 



lu thai I, ' lift** ofmnrch, 



q»,. . . |. ;Ue fitiMK in ,t* m>t sufficicnt- 



yy riiilutid «itii llie \)rt)it vf liroutiecv In iiulioij>aU'. lliui lUt enemy, who 

 Wtorcd uis tlie rear giiiii d qilhlcU, wWd atlennJl lo siivt; liu* carriacf's, 

 mi^ht cinsc €a*ily t« the condtulo» lUil ihcy liad ptirbUed in ibc 



Dr. 



