ades. ran a deep and rapid, but vc-ry narrov. 

 nullah whicb was much swollen by the heary 

 rains the morning, the paddy fields themselves 

 being kuee deep in water, and the nullah only 

 fordable in a few places. Whilst Lieut. Mioto 

 was endeavoring to cross the stream, the 6 pr* 

 opened upon him with round shot from the Ta- 

 boo lines, ihe balls falling short by a few yards, 

 and bounding over the detachment, whicb. en- 

 tering at the breached angle » was soon under co- 

 ver of tlie stockade. Lieutenant Poole, volun- 

 teer for the artillery, now joined the guns, and 

 Captain Bond returned to camp. 



Captiiiti SioDock's party coming up, and find- 

 ing the fiT^i stockade in tlie hands of Lieutenant 

 IVJinto, pushed on to the Taboo lines, throwing a 

 few men, m pasmiii, into the other two flanking 

 stockades. The rifle company under Captain 

 Winbult with Lieutebant Liardet, and Lieute- 

 nant MilhtfS, as a volunteer, joined the artillery, 

 and the 12 pr, howitzer having limbered up, the 

 whole proceeded along the high road. Lieutenant 

 Mlnto making a simultaneous advance frjm the 

 left, and picking up the detachments as he moved 

 on. Felletl trees soon ohstructing the road for 

 artillery, Lieutenants Begbie and Poole struck 

 off the left into the paddy field with the mortar, 

 the vollies of Captain Sinnock'a party being then 

 heard. On arriving at the nullah, the lines being 

 then in possession of the troops, several unsuc- 

 cessful attempts were made to get the mortar 

 across, and, by the time the artillery got into the 

 stockade, the rifles had also arrived, a section 

 of whom under Lieutenant Liardet had dislodged 



