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Rh western point of the island and fortress; thus avoiding the wasted tract prepared for him, and, at the same time, opening a more ready communication with the Bombay army, under General Stuart, and the fertile districts in the south. This expedient also enabled him to avoid the ground on which the Sultan had purposed to give battle; and that chief, thwarted in all his measures, threw himself into the town, with the resolution of defending it to the last extremity.