Bengal| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Volunteers | | 1 | | | | | | 1| 9| 2| 75 | 88 | |2nd Batt. ditto | | 2 | | | | | 1| 1| 5| 2| 76 | 87 | +----------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---------+------+ |(Pioneers and | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Coolies 550). | | 6 | | 4| 1| 70| 2| 3| 18| 4| 197 | 305 | +----------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---------+------+ N.B. One one-pounder, and one 4-2/3 coehorn. Sept. 22.--Marched at day-light to the westward, keeping in a southerly direction as much as the nature of the country would admit, in order to approximate the route of Colonel Maddison's detachment. 23, 24, 25, 26.--Followed the same course, expecting, as we drew nearer to the place of rendevouz, to hear of the Hambingtotte division. 27.--Reached Sambapelly after a very fatiguing march of above seventy miles (from Surcamony), over a country wild and mountainous in the highest degree. During the last sixty miles we had not seen a house or a human being, nor was there anything except the paths through the forests and round the bases of the mountains, to induce a belief that this quarter had ever been peopled. We crossed one broad river, and several smaller streams, none of which fortunately impeded our march. The weather during the day was close and sultry, the circulation of the air being impeded by the forests; the nights, on the contrary, were foggy and cold. These changes of climate began to take effect on the troops, and I found it necessary to send back from hence two Malays and twenty-two Bengal Sepoys, who were indisposed. Sambapelly is a small village, near which stands the residence of a Candian chief. The country in the vicinity assumes a more favourable appearance. Some villages are discernible, and the valleys are in many parts cultivated.