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MINUTES OF PEOCEEDINGS OF 
The attack on Dewangiri, by General Tombs, was brilliantly successful; 
the advance up the pass was rapid, and an early hour the following day 
shewed the troops storming the stockading and forts without a check— 
nearly 150 Bhooteas were here killed or taken prisoners—and the decisive 
blows given by the English with such rapidity all along the frontier, struck 
terror into the enemy, and has led them to come to make terms, suing 
for peace. But, for the troops, the greatest trial and suffering were yet to 
come; stationed in the midst of the most unhealthy district, they fell 
victims to sickness in hundreds; being, in some cases, so utterly decimated 
and prostrate as to be unable to furnish a single guard. Euture travellers in 
these parts will wonder whose are the rows of graves, who could have been 
the men to risk the deadly nature of this climate,—a climate that passes as a 
proverb throughout the country wide. Of those who served in the last of 
England's little wars, there are but few whose health and constitution have 
not been broken and impaired. But the price paid would not be grudged 
by the victims, were it certain that the history thereof taught a lesson or 
pointed a moral. 
