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JOURNAL OF AN EMBASSY 
it after their fashion ; erecting a stockade on 
the Point,—one on the right bank of the 
Panlang, and one on the left of the Lain 
river, neither of which streams are here above 
one hundred and fifty yards broad. Sir A. 
Campbell attacked these stockades, on the 
8tli of July 1824, with the gun-boats of the 
expedition, carrying a detachment of Euro¬ 
pean and native troops. The stockades were 
cannonaded for some hours. This was the 
practice in the commencement of the war, un¬ 
til it was found that the Burmese wanted cou¬ 
rage to face the close attack of the Europeans, 
and that they invariably took to flight when 
closed with. After this discovery, the mode 
followed was to run up to the stockades at 
once, place the ladders against them, and scale. 
A few casualties occurred in the advance ; but 
the scaling-ladders were scarcely placed, when 
the Burmans abandoned their works, and ex¬ 
cept when accident prevented their escape, an 
occurrence which happened on a few occasions 
only, they sustained little loss. From the per¬ 
sonal intrepidity of the European troops, and 
their physical strength, they were peculiarly 
well suited for this mode of attack. Neither 
the moral nor physical energy of the Sepoys 
was found so suitable. In the attack on Pago- 
