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sheds, repairing march damages, and preparing to make the
limbers. I hope to have the guns ready for exercising in a
few days." Writing later, he says 44 As for the present we
shall, in all probability, remain stationary <it the two camps
of Chyabassa and Chuckaderpore, I am going to inspect the
latter, and lay out a proper place for a camp, cut away and
gravelled, and improve the roads between, which will keep the
men in health and exercise. The Commissioner, Major Dalton,
with whom I see I shall get on very well, wants the Police
guns and ammunition, and will make a requisition for them
by and by. Things have gone on well at Chyabassa, and I
am making the limbers very substantial, stout shafts, &c., box
to open with double lid, and carry six mountain-train box
contents. All ironwork we are very hard up for, and I would
give anything for a good armourer and forge; the mens' accou
trements also want much repair at intervals. I have picked
out a fine battery ground at Chyabassa, marked off 1,200 yards
with a view to a range table, for w^hich a few rounds will suffice,
without waste of ammunition." On the 13th of August, he
writes from the same place:—" A number of the leading men
of the Coles came in yesterday. I was requested to throw a
few shells to overawe them, and they seemed to understand it.
We had a field day. The Rajah is still lurking in the jungle
with a number of men." In September, the Marine Police
Brigade was broken up, to the relief of all concerned, and Lieu
tenant Windus took over their two guns, in addition to the two
he had brought. He writes, under date the 27th of October,
from the Camp at Chuckaderpore, having left Acting-Lieutenant
Yates at Chyabassa, with thirty men:—"I have been now afc
Chuckaderpore Camp some days, and have made an excursion
or two to protect the natives, whose crops have been cut and
villages burnt by the rebels. We march at midnight to-night
to attack a den of the robbers in one of their fastnesses in the
jungle, and hope to surprise them. I shall take forty picked
men and fifty Cole levies, who are smart little fellows, armed
with percussion muskets, and are under my orders up here.
The men are very well, a few knocked up with rheumatism, of
which I get my share very severely occasionally."
Early in November, Lieutenant Wmdus, taking with him
Mr. Green and seventy seamen, made a successful dour against
the Coles, in conjunction with Captain Birch, and some native
levies. The enemy mustered about 5,000 strong in the jun
gles, though broken up into small detachments, each having
a leader, the ex-Rajah of Porahaut, Urjoon Singh, being the
principal chief. On starting to beat up the rebel quarters.
Lieutenant Windus left a party, under Acting-Master
Williams, at Chyabassa, with one gun, and, at the camp
at Chuckaderpore, thirty seamen, and fifty Cole levies,
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