A large number of our troops are down near Rangoon but, in the fighting that has taken place, we have gained no advantage.

Your people marched out at the end of May, carried a stockade; and advanced to Joazoang, and attacked some villages defended by stockades and carried them, after having killed a hundred of our men.

Then a great stockade on a hill near the river, three miles from Rangoon--which our people thought could not be taken, so strongly was it protected--was attacked.

The guns of your people made a great gap in a stockade a mile in front of it.

Two hundred men were killed, and also the commander.
"Then your people marched on to the great stockade at Kemmendine.
Your troops, when they got there, saw how strong it was and were afraid to attack it.