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tbe ground ou the iTtliulto. and, having collected 

 all the bones together, l)«riied them. 



22d. The force having beeii further strength- 

 ened by the arrival of Lieatenant Stevenson's 

 cunipany of the 4(Uh, which had been relieved at 

 Hoongei Pattyeby anoihrT cumpany of the same 

 corps inider Eusiprn Falconer, and the de*^triietKni 

 ot the ^tockadtts at Bukit Seboosa having niate- 

 riaily altered the relattve poi-ition of the ctmtend- 

 parties, Colonel Herbert determined on the 

 2ist to renew active nperalion^. His hrst inten- 

 tion was to occupy Bukit 8cboasa at once, but 

 it was aHandoned in consequence of the extent 

 of jungle which still intervened between that 

 hill and the Briti«?h post. Accordingly at H a, 

 the grenadiers and light c«>mpany of tl»e 5th 

 under Captain Poulton, and Captain Justice,, 

 Lieutenants Mtnto, Poole, artd Knjsi«jn Sfoddart, 

 with a 5iV inch mortar under Lieutenant Begbie» 

 formed the covering p'^rty to the sappers. On 

 arriving at the grt*und» Captain Poulton mov 

 ed on with the grenadiers as far as Pri^gi-to- 

 Dattus to make a reconuoisance, 'and returned 

 at half past 8 a. «, with the ^fculli^Jhnd skeleton 

 of the mxlh missing m:in, which werii found con- 

 siderably to the rear of the position occupied by 

 the enemy on the 17th ApriL it therefore ap- 

 pears probable that these were the remaiuji of a 

 havildar, whoi?e thigh was known to have been 

 broken by a shot, and that he had been carried 

 tliither for the purpose of - i ^ rn formation, and 

 subsequently butchered. 



Another skeleton was found in the jungle, in 

 the afternoon, but, as there was a Brahniinical 

 cord on it, it could uot bas^e been that of a Ma- 



