Political Incidents of the First Burmese War

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ...I am always well. At last, however, the climate told upon him, though in a different way from what it did upon others. In working at the construction of a bridge of boats on the advance from the Myoo, he had fallen down in a fit, apparently brought on by the effects of the sun. At our first meeting after this attack, on my saying that we all had thought him to be proof against any influence of the kind, he replied, Ah, sir, the house must fall some day. He never was quite the same man again, and though he escaped the fever, yet his general health was so much impaired by the great exertions he had made, that he soon after retired to Chittagong, where he obtained from Government a liberal provision for the comfort of his declining years, though perhaps scarcely an adequate recompense for services not to be estimated but by those who were mingled up in the same operations with himself. The dreary rains were dragging their slow length along, and disease and death seemed to be becoming the rule, health and life the exception, amongst all the strangers assembled at Arracan. It was then that the Mug levy proved of use by performing much of the outpost and other duty. Had there been any enemy near, our situation would have been precarious, but the Burmese had luckily, by that time, plenty to attend to at home. Arracan also is, in the rainy season, unapproachable to any but a power possessing the command of the water, and on that element our superiority was absolute. At this time of suffering, the conduct of General Morrison was worthy of all admiration. Daily were his visits to the hospital, and while there he was employed in reading to the sick and dying, administering to them those consolations of religion, which there was no...