CHAPTER XVII.

Burning of the Residency and of all our effects—Difficulties of retreat—No food, wet clothes, burning sun—Pursued—Exhaustive march—Kindness of a Naga boy—Fired on—Sleep after a march of twenty miles—Have to march again—Capture a Manipuri with rice—Enemy lurks around us—Come upon a stockade—Are attacked—Goorkhas in sight 239-261