'History of the Indian Navy. (1613-1863).' [‎187] (206/622)

HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAYY.
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With this detachment proceeded the Governor, Captain Graham,
of H.M.S. 6 Castor,' and Commander Young of the 6 Elphinstone.'
On the 28th of December a detachment of one hundred men
of the 58th Regiment arrived from Norfolk Island, so that the
total force before the pah was composed as followsThirty-
two officers and two hundred and eighty seamen from H.M.'s
ships 4 North Star,' twenty-six guns, 4 Racehorse,' eighteen
guns, ; Osprey,'twelve guns, and the Hon. Company's ship
' Elphinstone,' eighteen guns, the whole under Commander
Hay, of the ' Racehorse,'—the contingent from the' Elphinstone,'
being sixty seamen and fifteen Bombay artillerymen acting as
marines, under Lieutenants W. Leeds and Ralph, and Midship
men H. H. Garrett and W. M. Pengelley. Royal Marines,
three officers and eighty men under Captain Langford; 58th
Regiment, nineteen officers and five hundred and forty-three
men, under Colonel Wynyard ; 99th Regiment, six officers and
one hundred and fifty men, under Captain Reed; Volunteers
from Auckland, forty-two men, under Captain Atkyns. Also
Captain Marlow, R.E. and Lieutenant Wilmot, R.A. Total,
sixty-eight officers and one thousand one hundred and ten men,
besides four hundred and fifty native allies. The ordnance
consisted of three 32-pounders, one 18-pounder, two 12-pounder
howitzers, one 6-pounder brass gun, four 4^-inch mortars, and
two rocket tubes.
Between the 28th and the 31st of December, the troops w T ere
employed bringing up the guns to a new defensible position
taken up by the native allies, about 1,200 yards from the pah.
" Two guns, a 32-pounder and a 12-pounder howitzer," says
Colonel Despard, 46 were placed in battery on an elevated
position in front of the camp, and several shells w 7 ere thrown
from them into the pah with great accuracy, doing great credit
to the two officers who directed them. Lieutenant Bland, H.M.S.
'Racehorse,' and Lieutenant Leeds, Hon. Company's ship
'Elphinstone.'" A rocket battery was also established on the
same ground, about 650 yards from the pah, under the com
mand of Lieutenant Egerton, of H.M.S. ' North Star,' but
though it was w T ell served, from some defect in the composition,
the rockets frequently fell short. As there w'as a great deficiency
of carriage the tents were left at a depot formed on the road,
and, there being abundance of wood and bush, the men were
enabled to hut themselves without difficulty.
On the morning of the 1st of January, 1846, a strong party
pushed forward to within 350 yards of the pah, and a stockade
was commenced on an open spot in the only wooded space that
now divided them from the enemy, to afford protection to a
breaching battery of two 32-pounders, brought up with great
labour from the 'Elphinstone,' with room for a magazine; the
stockade, being on lower ground than the pah, was constructed