Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1888 — Soldiering in Burmah. [ARTICLE]

Soldiering in Burmah.

Shortly after my enlistment our regiment was ordered to Bnrmah to subdue the natives. In addition to the English troops we had natives as well. The hostile natives were known as dacoits, and we had some very lively skirmishes with them. A friendly Buddhist priest informed ns one night of the location of an enemy’s camp, and a detachment was sent out to capture it. We surrounded them and they tried to fight their way out, and one big fellow came within three inches of splitting my head with his knife. We captured about thirty of them. Another time we attacked a little army of them who had taken up a position at the summit of a steep kill. They rolled big bowlders down <npon us, and I barely escaped one that must have weighed" about ten tons.— Philadelphia Beeord.