These little guns carried ball of from six to twelve ounces, and were mounted on a light carriage, which two men could wheel with ease.
The cannon were carried to the scene of action on elephants.

The cavalry were seven hundred strong, drawn from the borders of Manipur.
The rest of the army were armed with swords and spears, and carried implements for stockading and entrenching.

The force was accompanied by a number of astrologers; and by the Invulnerables--who had, doubtless, satisfactorily explained their failure to capture the pagoda.
A great semicircle of light smoke, rising from the trees, showed that the position taken up by Bandoola extended from the river above Kemmendine to the neighbourhood of Rangoon.

On the night of the 31st, the troops at the pagoda heard a loud and continuous stir in the forest.

It gradually approached and, by morning, great masses of troops had gathered at the edge of the jungle, within musket shot of the post.