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boo proving extremely unhealthy on accomit ofl 

 the proximity of the hills, which induced fever*: 

 vas eubsequeatly abandoned as a statiott^ and 

 no post was retaitied in advance of Bell's srock-u 

 ade. The 23d L. L having arrived from Madras* 

 towards the end of July, the greater . portion o*. 

 the troops in advance was relieved by it, and 

 Assahan and Rheim occupied in addition. Colo- 

 nel Herbert, whose health was so much impaired 

 as to render a return to Europe necessary, was 

 relieved in September by Colonel Wilson c. b* 'tB' 

 by whose orders a star fort was erected in the ^ 

 neighborhood of Belfij stockade, which has now 

 neither '* a local habitation nor a name," having 

 been pulled down in the middle of 1833, and 

 the place thenceforth called Fort Lis nj ore,'* 

 in compliment to the family of His Excellency, 

 Sir Robert O'Callaghan, the present Command- 

 er in Chief of Madras. Dool S} ed has been an 

 outcast* from his country ever since, and the 

 force, by gradual reductions, is brought nearly to 

 its original strength. 



On the nth Becember, Pendika Tomby, one 

 of the proscribed chieftaios, was traced to a 

 honse in the vicinity of Soongei Pattye, and at- 

 tacked by six of the Malay Contingent: he re- 

 ceived four severe sword cuts, but eflPeeted his 

 escape. Two days afterwards, he wa** appre- 

 hended in the jungle near Sebang, and forward* 

 ed to Malacca uii Bell's stockade. Two of the 

 severest cuts were on the shoulder blade, and 

 presented a horrible appearance. His friendsj 

 probably with the view of staunching the blood, 



* since Ihe fprcfolnf writtcii^ tfa« ex'panghooloo h<u inntildf red 

 Mtnself (la yiw^ 1^4) to tb* Britiih Oo varment. 



