I came here in disguise, having made my way down from Ava." "Oh, indeed! We heard a report that a white man had arrived, in disguise, at the lines of the 45th Native Infantry; but we have had no particulars, beyond that." "I was captured at Ramoo, sir, while I was acting as an officer of the native levy.

Fortunately I was stunned by the graze of a musket ball and, being supposed dead, was not killed; as were all the other officers who fell into the hands of the Burmese.

Their fury had abated by the time I came to myself, and I was carried up to Ava with some twenty sepoy prisoners.

After a time I made my escape from prison, and took to the forest; where I remained some weeks, till the search for me had abated somewhat.

Then I made my way down the country, for the most part in a fishing boat, journeying only at night, and so succeeded in getting in here.