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  Chads, R.N. will accept his best thanks for their perseverance in the fatiguing and harassing service in which they have been engaged, and it is with great pleasure he has received a report of the unanimity and good feeling with which the best exertions of the officers and men of both services were brought forward upon this, as on all other occasions where they have been employed together, and which it has so often been his pride to report to the highest authorities.

(Signed)“F. S. Tidy, Lieut. Col., D.A.G.”

Major Snodgrass contents himself with saying, that “the stockades upon the Dalla river, and those upon the Panlang branch, or principal passage into the Irrawaddy, were attacked and carried with few casualties on our part, while the enemy in both instances suffered severely, with the additional loss of many pieces of artillery.” In an official letter to Captain Coe, dated Sept. 28th, Captain Chads expresses himself as follows:–

“The rains continued during the whole month of September, and sickness had arrived at an alarming height. An epidemic fever, which prevailed all over India, made its appearance among the troops, which, although in few instances of a fatal tendency, left all those whom it attacked in a 