[266] Wilson, p. 25. [267] Wilson, p. 29 sq. [268] Macfarlane’s British India, pp. 450-452. [269] Burmese War, p. 52, ed. 1852. [270] Burmese War, p. 54. [271] Burmese War, p. 56 sq. [272] Wilson, p. 61. [273] Crawfurd’s Ava, vol. i. p. 304. [274] Edinburgh Review, vol. lxxi, p. 361, July, 1840. [275] Wilson’s Burmese War, p. 63. [276] The gilt umbrella surmounting the highest pinnacle of the pagoda. [277] Two Years in Ava, p. 26 sqq. This interesting and well-written book seems to be the production of a naval officer attached to the expedition. It is by far the most attractive narrative of the proceedings in 1824, with which I am acquainted. [278] Snodgrass, Burmese War, p. 12. [279] See Two Years in Ava, p. 25. [280] Snodgrass, p. 6. [281] Two Years in Ava, p. 24. [282] Ibid. p. 29. Cf. book i. chap. ii. p. 40 of this work. [283] Burmese War, pp. 15-20. [284] Page 16. [285] Snodgrass, pp. 20-22. [286] Page 25. [287] Edinburgh Review, vol. lxxi. p. 358. [288] Two Years in Ava, p. 40. [289] Burmese War, p. 27. [290] Page 43 sq. [291] A doolie is a species of litter, used in the East to carry the wounded from the field of battle. [292] Burmese War, pp. 35-37. [293] Two Years in Ava, p. 56. So, too, did the wild shouts and savage songs of the Mexicans strike on the ears of the watching Spaniards. [294] Wilson, Burmese War, p. 86 sq., and the authorities quoted there. [295] Two Years in Ava, p. 60. [296] Two Years in Ava, p. 66 sq. [297] I may here mention, that Major Canning, who had accompanied the expedition as political agent, about this time returned to Calcutta by the _Nereide_, where, debilitated by the marsh fever of Ava, he shortly died. [298] Burmese War, p. 96. [299] Book i. chap. ii. p. 39. [300] British India, p. 463 sq. Geijer, the historian of Sweden, well compares them to the Bersekkars. [301] Wilson’s Burmese War, p. 105. [302] It may be as well to state, that about this time Colonel Godwin, after a gallant resistance, took Martaban for the first time; it has since been given up to the Burmese; but in this last war it was again taken possession of, and it is now in our hands. [303] Wilson, pp. 106, 107. [304] Wilson, p. 113. [305] Burmese War, p. 119. My limits do not admit of my speaking much of the war in Arakhan, which was yet undetermined. I shall content myself with referring to Macfarlane, Wilson, and other historians, merely adding, that the conquest of the province was completed by the end of April, 1825. [306] Wilson, p. 175. [307] I may here mention, that the author of Two Years in Ava has enriched his book by an excellent and complete plan of the fortress and works of Donabew, which I most heartily recommend to the student of military science. [308] MacFarlane’s India, p. 479. [309] Wilson’s Burmese War, p. 181. [310] Edinburgh Review, vol. lxxi. p. 356. [311] Wilson, Burmese War, p. 184. [312] British India, p. 485.