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'History of the Indian Navy. (1613-1863).' [‎449] (468/622)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (575 pages). It was created in 1877. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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the ground until the main body came up, I went on up the
road to Romkang, and carried the stockades marked Nos. 7
and 8.
" At No. 8 the resistance was most desperate, by far the
worst of any we had met. The hill was here extremely pre
cipitous, and they rolled down stones upon us, as well as
showers of arrows. Even when we charged and got up to the
stockade, they thrust their spears and shot their poisoned
arrows through slits in the stockade, and it being defended by
palisades at right angles with the stockade, and half way up, it
could not be climbed over; we had gradually to break down a
portion of the stockade to get in. Lieutenant Davies was here
severely wounded, through a slit in the stockade, by poisoned
arrows, in two places, and Mr. Midshipman An experienced sailor, but not a commissioned officer. Mayo slightly
wounded in the same manner. On getting in, all opposition
ceased, the enemy abandoned No. 9 without a blow, and we
were in possession of the village of Romkang at two p.m., after
five hours of uninterrupted hard fighting. After having set fire
to and completely destroyed the villages, I returned down the
hill, destroying the stockades as we came, and rejoined the
main body under Colonel Hannay in Pashee, which place they
had taken while we were engaged at Romkang. The whole
force then returned to the Ghat at Pashee, which we reached
about seven p.m. Lieutenant W. H. M. Davies, LN., and Mr.
Midshipman An experienced sailor, but not a commissioned officer. Mayo, IN., exhibited throughout this long affair
the most daring courage, and on every occasion of storming these
numerous stockades they were in the front. The men of the
Brigade behaved most admirably throughout, and followed close
up to their officers at every stockade. Our loss has been very
severe, I am sorry to say, and amounted to more in wounded
than the third of the men engaged."
The fighting throughout the day was desperate, and all dis
played conspicuous courage, especially the three officers, two of
whom were wounded, and Lieutenant Lewis, the third, had a
narrow escape. Of the seamen, four were killed and twenty-
one wounded, the wounds being chiefly caused by arrows, the
barbs of which were steeped in "aconite" poison, of the nature
and effects of which Captain Lowther, of the Assam Battalion,
sent a report to the Agricultural Society of India. # The path
at the foot of the hills was found planted with punjies, or small
# At a meeting of the Medical and Physical Society of Bengal, on the 7th of
July, 1827, a paper was communicated by Dr. Breton, giving the results of
certain experiments he had made as to the nature of the poisons in use by the
Nagas, a tribe of hillmen. He said that the poison is a vegetable gum, obtained
by making incisions into the bark of a large tree. The Nagasmix it with tobacco
water to the consistency of paste, with which they smear the points of their
arrows. By experiments on animals. Dr. Breton proved its deadly effects. He
said the people are reluctant to indicate the tree from which the gum is ex
tracted.
VOL. II.

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History of the Indian Navy. (1613-1863).

Author: Charles Rathbone Low.

Publication Details: London: Richard Bentley and Son, New Burlington Street.

Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-vi); octavo.

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1 volume (575 pages)
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This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter.

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Dimensions: 229mm x 140mm

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