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JOHN WILLIAM MUDGE M.D., (1817-1886).
Autograph manuscript journal, mostly Burma, also India and Egypt, 25 August 1852 - 16 August 1855, and Ceylon, 28 - 30 January 1859, describing his experiences at the end of the second Burmese war. including his embarkation at Madras on the steamer Firoze under Commodore Lynch and arrival at Rangoon, commenting at length on the suffering of the horses transported by sea, some so weak that 'we were obliged to get slings and bamboos with 12 men on each side and support them up to the shed near the track'; the fortifying of the terrace of the Great Pagoda; reporting the taking of Prome where later he sees numerous elephants brought from Calcutta being washed in preparation for the attack on Ava; recording the relief of Pegu where the garrison left by General Godwin was beleaguered by the Burmese; describing the marches through the dense jungle; the rebellion in Ava, the capture of a famous Dacoit chief, a bloody rout near Bassein and various ambushes; observing the scenery and vegetation; noting the prevalence of various diseases among the men, and giving details of the diagnoses of the sickness of the horses, often from autopsies; giving his impressions of Cairo and Alexandria on his homeward voyage; in 1859 describing his grief on the death of his wife, and a visit to Ceylon, altogether approximately 87 pages (of which 60 are written in Burma), a few small plans and sketches in pen and ink, notes loosely inserted, pressed ferns, newspaper cuttings, blank leaves, contemporary calf, 4° (245 x 185 mm).
J. W. Mudge, an assistant surgeon in the Army Medical Department in the Madras Presidency, accompanied the Madras Artillery and Bengal Horse to Burma during the last stage of the second Burmese war.
Autograph manuscript journal, mostly Burma, also India and Egypt, 25 August 1852 - 16 August 1855, and Ceylon, 28 - 30 January 1859, describing his experiences at the end of the second Burmese war. including his embarkation at Madras on the steamer Firoze under Commodore Lynch and arrival at Rangoon, commenting at length on the suffering of the horses transported by sea, some so weak that 'we were obliged to get slings and bamboos with 12 men on each side and support them up to the shed near the track'; the fortifying of the terrace of the Great Pagoda; reporting the taking of Prome where later he sees numerous elephants brought from Calcutta being washed in preparation for the attack on Ava; recording the relief of Pegu where the garrison left by General Godwin was beleaguered by the Burmese; describing the marches through the dense jungle; the rebellion in Ava, the capture of a famous Dacoit chief, a bloody rout near Bassein and various ambushes; observing the scenery and vegetation; noting the prevalence of various diseases among the men, and giving details of the diagnoses of the sickness of the horses, often from autopsies; giving his impressions of Cairo and Alexandria on his homeward voyage; in 1859 describing his grief on the death of his wife, and a visit to Ceylon, altogether approximately 87 pages (of which 60 are written in Burma), a few small plans and sketches in pen and ink, notes loosely inserted, pressed ferns, newspaper cuttings, blank leaves, contemporary calf, 4° (245 x 185 mm).
J. W. Mudge, an assistant surgeon in the Army Medical Department in the Madras Presidency, accompanied the Madras Artillery and Bengal Horse to Burma during the last stage of the second Burmese war.