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Updated: June 12, 2025
His stockaded position was in front of the town of Pagahn, but he occupied the jungle in great force, and attacked our advance guard, five miles from the town. As the enemy occupied the hills on both sides of the main road, Sir A. Campbell divided his force and led half of it through the jungle on the right, while General Cotton led the other half through the woods on the left.
"I know," Joyce declares, wrinkling up her smooth little nose. "It's lamp oil." She is right, it is petroleum; there are here wells of it, from which it bursts up with great force sometimes, like a geyser. If we had been on a tourist steamer we should have visited Pagahn, but then we should have missed seeing much human life.
Pagahn was once a capital city, and the then Burman king pulled down some of the pagodas to build up the defences of his walls when he heard that a Chinese king was coming to attack him; but of course he got the worst of it after such an impious act, as anyone would guess, and since then the place has been deserted.
Soon we see a great sugar-loaf hill in the distance, also a perfect forest of pagodas of all shapes and sizes along the river bank. This is Pagahn, a celebrated place, now deserted and melancholy.
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