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inactmty SnSe British in front, and their yells 

 and war songs were heard all around. A party 

 approached within a hundred yards of the right 

 battery under cover of the tiight, but retreated 

 on the fire ofthe picquet, which was on the alert. 



2Sth. Another sapper was this day severely 

 injured by a tree falling on him at Sooiigei Pat- 

 tye. 



Sunday 20th. Ensign Stoddart, who had been 

 left sick at Malacca, joined his company, the 

 grenadiers of the 5th N. I. 



30tfa. Lieutenant Begbie despatched to Malac- 

 ca as member of a Committee on Military Stares 

 received from Singapore. 



