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abo\it fifty yards m rear of tbe battery. Aitillc* 

 ry employe*^ as yeslcrday- 

 aad. Light company 5th N. I., under iU offi- 

 <!ei"F^» with a few rifles attached, formed the cover- 

 ing party to the sappers at Kalama cleariitg the 

 jungle; s^n'F^^- OB® of the enemy woimded. 

 Artillery and the ^^tockades exchanging ghots, 



24th. Captain W inbolt with the rifles covering 

 in the rear. Artillery &c. a« before. A cimvict, who 

 deserted from camp to-day. killed by the enemy, 

 and his bowels ripped open at Soongei Pattye. 

 Tappal fired on, and one of the enemy killed. 



25th. Lieti tenant Poole marched with a cora- 

 pany of the 5th N. L at 3 a. h. towards Soongei 

 Paitye, for the purpose of destroying a stockade 

 there. This officer reached the place at day-break, 

 and surprised about li! ) y ofthe enemy, who, favor- 

 ed by a dense fog, effected their escape: having 

 ottained his object, he returned to camp. Cap- 

 tain Burgess, from Roombiyali, destroyed another 

 in the neighborhood an hour or two afterwards. 

 The enemy fired on the right battery from a new 

 stockade in its rear, hwt were dislodged by 

 grape. 



27th, The Malay Contingent took a stockade 

 across the paddy field to the rear, ou the Sebaog 

 road; the enemy, four or five in number, making 

 their escape. Captain Poulton with his subal- 

 tern and the grenadiers of the 5th formed the 

 covering party at Soongei Pattye. Syed Sab- 

 ban arrived iu camp this day for the purpose of 

 co operatiDg. It was said that Guverivment bad 

 proffered to subsidize the Rurabow people but 

 that the chief preferred having liberty topUmder. 

 The enemy was evidently emboldened by the 



