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On wheeling round the face of the stockade. 

 Lieutenant Harding was found lying on the ground 

 mortally wounded. It appeared that his flank 

 movement had taken the enemy complelely by 

 surprise, who fied, in the greatest con fusion /after 

 firing an ill-concerted volley, leaving two killed 

 and one wounded, the fatter of whom managed 

 with great difficulty to effect his escape. The 

 very last man that issued from the stockade un- 

 expectedly confronted Lieutenant Harding, there 

 being a space of about twelve yards between 

 them. This officer put his hand to hh belt, bot» 

 unfortunately, the pistol was inextricably enlan^ 

 gled, and, before he could draw it, the man fired 

 from his hip. The ball passed through the throat, 

 and injured the spine, down which it appears to 

 have passed. 



Amongst the other ca^^natties were Subadar 

 Shaik By ram of the Grenadiers, left arm shattered, 

 and two or three of the grenadiers, more or less 

 severely, woouded. Lieutenant Pooles party, 

 which had encountered the greatest and most 

 formidable natural obstacles of the whole, came 

 up very shortly atter the other two, but the affair 

 was 80 rapidly terminared that it had been de- 

 cided before its arrival. 



This attack was judiciously planned and no 

 less ably executed. The enemy were in great 

 force, the day being Thursday, on which the 

 Panghooloo was in the habit of giving a weekly 

 buffaloe feast. The casualties, as far as numbers, 

 were trifling, notwithstanding the strength of the 

 position and the number of the enemy, whilst 

 the calculations of the arrivals of the different 



