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102 hore, in order to keep the communication at that ide open. In two days after his arrival, this pirited Officer defeated a coniderable body of the enemy at a mall fort called Seekur, where he found a vat quantity of grain, which prayed an acceptable prize, as it was much wanted.

Major Popham and Captain Blair having arrived within about a mile of Pateetah, nearly at the ame time found a party of the enemy in eeming readines to oppoe them. They fought on both ides, with great ardor and intrepidity, till victory perplexed with doubt, waited the arrival of Lieutenant's Fallow and Berrille, whoe gallant conduct with the