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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ... under the Native Officers. 4 command of Captain J. A. Loudon, Hospital Assistant.1 Rank and File 205 embarked at Cannanore on the 19th Public Followers. 7 September 1895, on board R.I.M.S. Dalhousie, and sailed for Rangoon, arriving there on the 1st October. The detachment was transferred to the R.I.M.S. Sladen on the 2nd, and, proceeding up the Irrawaddy, reached Pakokku on the 13th October, and disembarked on the 14th. On the 15th the detachment marched with 150 mules and 16 elephants to Kanhla (7 miles); 16th, to Tabya (13 miles); 17th, Pyinchaung (11 miles); 18th, Pauk(15 miles). In this march the Yaw river had to be forded twice. The river was partly in flood, and all the mules had to be unloaded, and the baggage crossed on elephants. On the 20th the detachment marched to Nedat(7 miles); 21st, Tebyin (15 miles); 22nd, Pounglon (10 miles); 23rd, Yawdwin (10 miles); and 24th, arrived at the stockade at Mindat Sakan (Chin Hills), where they relieved a similar detachment of the 9th Madras Infantry. Although the march was a trying one, owing to the bad state of the roads, and constantly having to cross rivers partly in flood, only two men fell out. On the 31st October 1895, the regimental headUritish Officers. 6 quarters, under the command of Major Native Officers. 9 j-. Lawson, strength as per margin, Hospital Assistants 2 Rank and File. 532 embarked at Cannanore on the Public Followers. 17 R.I.M.S. Warren Hastings, and sailed for Rangoon, arriving there on the 7th November 1895. The regiment travelled from Rangoon to Prome in two troop trains, and embarked at Prome on board the R.I.M.S. Sladen and two flats, reaching Thayetmyo on the 9th November, in relief of the 9th Madras Infantry. "The Chin Hills, properly so called, are under the 1 control of a...