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person, as if he had been making disbursements 
from the public treasury; and his parsimony 
was conspicuous in every department, while he 
neglected all the essential objects of the war. 
Mr. Judson had received from the Burman go¬ 
vernment, for himself and two followers, the 
sum of twenty ticals, which with much eco¬ 
nomy lasted for a month. Kaulen Mengyi, 
upon being petitioned, in official form, for an¬ 
other supply, told him that his habits were ex¬ 
travagant, and appointed a Burman officer to 
control his expenditure. 
We landed on the spot where the Burman 
works had been escaladed. The greater part 
of these were still remaining. They had con¬ 
sisted of a double abattis and an earthen wall 
of no great height, crowned by a palisade. 
This surrounded a conical hill of easy ascent, 
and about one hundred feet high, to the extent 
of two thousand yards. There was no ditch. 
Nothing could have been more unskilfully 
chosen than this position, for the Burman army 
was exposed from head to foot to the artillery 
from the opposite bank, and the only protec¬ 
tion it had against our shells and rockets, the 
practice of which was excellent throughout the 
war, consisted in pits covered by planks, in 
