in Burma to acquaint you with its history! Hullo!”—the

body of the Indians. We soon learned that they had gone up the

valley, and looking that way, we discovered a column of alkali dust

approaching us, about a mile distant, interposing between my little

detachment and the point where I knew General Rains intended to

encamp for the night. After hastily consulting with Lieutenant

Edward H. Day, of the Third United States Artillery, who was with me,

we both concluded that the dust was caused by a body of the enemy

which had slipped in between us and our main force. There seemed no