 | Henry Marshall - Sri Lanka - 1846 - 328 pages
...were plenty of bamboos and other materials at hand, and that they might make rafts for themselves. AH that day was employed in endeavouring to make rafts,...of the current ; but next day, about ten o'clock, Captain Humphries, of the Bengal Artillery, came and reported that he had succeeded in getting a rope... | |
 | Henry Marshall - Sri Lanka - 1846 - 342 pages
...employed in endeavouring to form rafts ; but a rope could not, with their means, be easily carried across the river, owing to the depth and rapidity of the current. Aboutseven AM, many armed Kandyans assembled near them, and others made their appearance on the opposite... | |
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... Davie would give up Budoo Swammy, (the King whom Governor North placed on the throne of Candy, and who retreated with our troops,) they would assist him with boats and rafts to cross the river; on which Major Davie gave him up by his own consent.... 