tijoot was in tlve hands of the other party, and 

 the bf dv of Ensign Walker waa brought into 

 cnmp nnd buried that evtsning. * The firing did 

 not cease tilt noon. 



Unpleasant suspicions prevailed throughout 

 the day that 8yed S^ibbaii was imphcsiled iri this 

 attack, to which opinion his having quitted camp, 

 about an hour previously, gave a very probable 

 color. 



He returned in tlie eveoing, however, iiaving 

 fallen in unexpectedly with a villnge, be i ween 

 the c^mip and Mullikie, which consisted of nine- 

 teen houses. These he set ii re to, aotJ brought 

 back with him two prisoners, one of whom had 

 been wounded by Inu^4quetry in the ieg- 



4th. Lieutenant Be^bie with 46 carts of mili- 

 tary stores and provisions returned to camp. 

 The enemy throwing up stockades on the road to 

 Sehang, opposite to the British rear pieqnet. 



On the 5th a serious affray octured in tlie ba- 

 zar, in the evening, between the Malay Contin- 

 gent and the convicts, which, had the enemy 

 been prompt to take advantage of the confusion, 

 might have been very prejudicial to the safety 

 of the camp. By the eiibrts of tlie officers and 

 men it was subdued, but not before one of the 

 Contingent had received a severe wound, and 

 one of the convicts, a kick on the stomach, of 

 which he died tliat night, 



Sunday 6ih, w^as distinguished merely by the 

 wounded Malay prisoner attempting to hang 

 himself, a death which to a Malay is peculiarly 



* A liamlMimf* rnfinuineiit, ilr*ipiei1 bv l.irnictjanl Sttiytlic, Ejiptje^ri, 

 has bc'cw m*et*Ki to tlit men. >rj, mid uver ihe rtaiiiina, ol'Mr. U alXct 

 by \ni hroUit:r tffficen «if the &lb. 



