add to them particulars of this surprising event in Rangoon

them, they threw away every loose article of arms or clothing of

which they could dismember themselves, and ran in the wildest

disorder in a mad effort to escape. As the chase went on the panic

increased, the clouds of dust from the road causing an intermingling

of friend and foe. In a little while the affair grew most ludicrous,

Faulkner's hatless and coatless men taking to the woods in such

dispersed order and so demoralized that a good many prisoners were

secured, and those of the enemy who escaped were hunted until dark.