[290] Page 43 sq.
[291] A doolie is a species of litter, used in the East to carry the wounded from the field of battle.
[292] Burmese War, pp. 35-37.
[293] Two Years in Ava, p. 56. So, too, did the wild shouts and savage songs of the Mexicans strike on the ears of the watching Spaniards.
[294] Wilson, Burmese War, p. 86 sq., and the authorities quoted there.
[295] Two Years in Ava, p. 60.
[296] Two Years in Ava, p. 66 sq.
[297] I may here mention, that Major Canning, who had accompanied the expedition as political agent, about this time returned to Calcutta by the Nereide, where, debilitated by the marsh fever of Ava, he shortly died.
[298] Burmese War, p. 96.
[299] Book i. chap. ii. p. 39.