up the river towards Gauhati. Three days later, three miles below the Nagarbera hill, a few canoes were sighted, carrying Gaurinath and his attendants. A mob of Doms or fisherman from Pakariguri under a Bairagi had raided and set fire to some houses near the king’s residence, and the king and his advisers, already much unnerved and demoralised, were seized with frantic terror and fled precipitately without the slightest resistance. The advance was continued by Captain Welsh accompanied by Gaurinath and the Bar Barua and also the tributary Chief of Rani who had joined the party at Hatimora, and a point eight miles from Gauhati was reached. Leaving a company in charge of the boats and the Raja, the remaining five companies under Captain Welsh made a night march to Gauhati. Near the gateway, men with torches went out on hearing footsteps but on seeing Sepoys, fled away. The troops crossed the wooden bridge that then spanned the Bharalu river and surprised and overpowered the occupants of the Bairagi’s house. Sixty persons were taken, prisoners. There was no resistance. The Raja thereafter arrived and entered the town in great state. He was given a guard of Sepoys. Negotiations were started with Krishna Narayan and the leaders of his mercenaries or ‘barkandazes’. But the response though respectful was evasive and the mercenaries showed no intention of leaving for home. Krishna Narayan was called up on to come to Gauhati. Gaurinath now finding that he could no longer stand-alone and unaided, sought British assistance against the Moamarias also and placed himself unreservedly in the hands of the British. His petition was referred to the Governor-General and was recommended by Captain Welsh who asked for two more battalions, a couple of six-pounders and a sufficient transport cattle, which could not be procured in Assam in case he was to bring the Moamarias also to submission.Lord Cornwallis highiy commended Captain Welsh for his conduct of the expedition and wished that the Raja should pacity his subjects by conciliatory measures and that Krishna Narayan might be induced to submit by restoration of his ancestral rights.? Captain Welsh was convinced that Krishna Narayan was trifling with him ; so he crossed the Brahmaputra and landed with two hundred and eighty men near a small hi!l with a temple on it, probably Asvakranta, on and around which Krishna Narayan’s troops, three thousand strong, were posted ; they