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On the arrival of the artillery at Soongei Pat- 

 tye ate o*cIuck. the rifles' and flank companies of 

 the 5th being already drawn up, tfiis party at once 

 proceeded toDattoo Membangin* about aslmie's 

 throw in advance of Alu Gajii, distant from 

 Soougei Pattye 2m. 5fls. and consequently 4m. 

 5fls. in adi^ance of Roombiyah. The detachment 

 reached their ground at 7 a. and the artillery 

 was parked on the extreme right, or the advance 

 flank, resting on the jungle which clothed the 

 acclivity, midway of which it was posted. 



On the 3d April, a very heavy fall of rain, ac* 

 companicd by severe thunder and lightning, oc- 

 curred, which did great damage to the stockade 

 at Koombiyah, the magazhit^s of which, for want 

 of room, were placed under the platforms of the 

 guns. 



On the 5th the remainder of the force arrived 

 from SooDgei Pattye, and the house of Dattoo 

 JVLembangin was appropriated as a General Hos- * 

 pita). 



Oil the 7th a committee was held at Roombiyah 

 on the damaged powder and there was found to 

 be three feet and a iialf of water in the magazines, 

 and 10,500 rounds of musquet ammunition, and 

 tlie whole of the rifle powder, destroyed, a s^eri- 

 ous loss at the commencement of a' campaign. 

 The rain had fallen in such abundance that the 

 roads across the paddy fields were compieiely 

 submerged. A cooly, coming from Malacca 

 with some property' of Colonel Herbert, was mur- 

 dered by some marauders within a mile of Room- 



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