[41] The island of Seringham lies between the Coleroon and Caveri. It is famous for the pagoda from which it derives its name. [42] Orme. [43] Orme, vol. i. p. 183-196. [44] This water is called Canjee, and contains a sufficient infusion of the grain to be nutritive, resembling thin gruel. [45] Orme, vol. i. p. 196. [46] Id. ibid., p. 199. [47] Besides the unwarrantable threat of exposing their prisoners, Orme (vol. i. p. 199.) states, that, though they gave quarter to the two officers, Revel and Glass, they had murdered in their litters five or six disabled soldiers, whom they took when on their route from Arcot to Fort St. David. [48] Orme, vol. i. p. 206. [49] He commenced his march, February 22. 1752. [50] Clive, on his return to Fort St. David, marched by the new buildings of a town on the site where Nasir Jung was slain, to which the name of Dupleix-Fatiha Bad (or "the town of victory") had been given. A pompous pillar was in preparation to commemorate, in every eastern language, an event which the French deemed a great victory. Clive and his troops, viewing this transaction in a very different light, razed to the ground these monuments of pride. [51] Clive was, at this period, only twenty-six years of age. [52] Colonel Lawrence's Narrative, p. 14. [53] When the affairs of Chunda Sahib became desperate, and he could no longer support his followers, the leaders of the parties of whom his army was composed, solicited permission to leave him, and this request was readily granted by that ill-fated prince, who told them they had only anticipated his wish, as he was no longer able to support them, but at the same time solemnly promised to liquidate their large arrears, should fortune ever again smile upon him. [54] Orme, vol. i. p. 245. [55] Id., ibid. [56] April 6th, 1752. [57] April 14th, 1752. [58] Orme, vol. i. p. 223. [59] On this incident, Mr. Beaufoy has the following note:--"As it may, perhaps, be difficult to conceive how one shot should destroy his two supporters and leave him unhurt, Mr. Archdeacon Clive mentioned this difficulty to Lord Clive, who answered, that the two men on whose shoulders he leaned were shorter than himself, and were both of them in the line of the shot, his own body being so much behind as to be out of the line." _Biog. Brit._ art. CLIVE, p. 650. note. [60] Captain Dalton was wounded in the subsequent operations against Pitchandah. [61] April 15th, 1752.