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details, although substantially correct m the 

 lending features. In order to exemplify the in- 

 accuracy of the inteUigence procured in the com- 

 mencement of the second expediiion by »he spies 

 of tlie British. 1 ah'^U recite a portion of that com* 

 municated by Dattoo Maia'u» who had, as we 

 have seen, bteu at Taboo the preceding night. 



After having stated that he, Endika» and Rr- 

 jah Krajan, commanded at Bukil Se^oosa on the 

 2;jth May, and that five shells had hm-n m I he 

 stockades, he declared that both of theite indivi- 

 duals had. like himself, deserted the Pan^jhooloo, 

 which intelligence proved to be founded in fact. 

 He, moreover, assierted that the Seban!^ and Jo- 

 hoi people had also withdrawn fiom the cordede- 

 racy ; that Dool Syed was then left with a huti- 

 dred men, aud Sookoo Orang Cayoo Kechil, who 

 was 60 decrepid to be obliged to be carried ; 

 and that at the fall of l*ur-Ling, which complete- 

 ly disheartened the rebels, several women and 

 children broke their limbs m leaping^ outofthe 

 houses on the approach of the troops 

 ■ On being questioned a*; to the di^pusiiion o! the 

 stockades at Taboo, his answer!^ were not so clear, 

 which niight possibly arise from ttre interpreter 

 not thof'^ughly understanding him. He stated 

 that there was one large stockade there, with a 

 smaller one on each flank, and that one 6 pr: 

 was in the centre work, while the other was in 

 the hoime of the Fanghonioo in the neighborhood, 

 but he could give no- idea of the relative positions 

 of these works either to each other 6r with refer- 

 ence to the country, in which they were situated. 

 These details, although snffieietitly accurate to 

 exonerate the Dattoo from the charge of d^cep- 



