Were the Malays in force ?" "The place swarmed with them, sir, but they were evidently demoralized by the fire of the guns, and their attacks were really feeble.

The only trouble we had was that some would shut themselves up in houses.

It looked at first as if they really meant to fight, but directly the shells began to fall behind them, and fire broke out, they lost heart altogether, and made a bolt for the forest." "Well, the work has been thoroughly done, Mr.Ferguson, and Sehi has had a lesson that he won't forget.

Now we have to tackle his fleet." "Everything is ready, sir.

We have got the sledges made for the two guns, and a store of long bamboos for the carriages and anything else we may want to take with us." "This will be a more serious business by a long way," the captain said.
"The men had better take a hundred rounds of ammunition with them, and it would be as well to take a few boxes of spare cartridges; and the men not occupied in dragging the cannon and carrying the carriages, must take up as many rounds of shell as possible, and eight or ten rounds of grape for each gun.