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The villages and open towns had been abandoned, the bridges destroyed, the cattle driven away, the provisions removed, the country made a desert. The people had gathered into the walled cities, which were plentifully provisioned and garrisoned. The purpose of the senate was to weaken Maximin by famine and retard him by siege.
There was the proper complement of names, but of names only. The praetor drew from the treasury the pay for these imaginary soldiers and marines, and diverted it into his own pocket. And the ships were as ill provisioned as they were ill manned. After they had been something less than five days at sea they put into the harbor of Pachynus.
On January 26, 1896, the Spray, being refitted and well provisioned in every way, sailed from Buenos Aires. There was little wind at the start; the surface of the great river was like a silver disk, and I was glad of a tow from a harbor tug to clear the port entrance. But a gale came up soon after, and caused an ugly sea, and instead of being all silver, as before, the river was now all mud.
The city of Paris was guarded, as we all know, by a hundred and twenty-four forts, of a thousand guns each provisioned for a considerable time, and all so constructed as to fire, if need were, upon the palace of the Tuileries.
Their lordships returned, and told the Privy Council that the Bass was in every respect well provisioned and well manned. Middleton's terms were, therefore, gladly accepted.
Our young officer went into the woods in the condition of Falstaff, "heinously unprovided." Coming from the unbounded luxury of the plantations, he found himself entering "the most horrid and impenetrable forests, where no kind of refreshment was to be had," he being provisioned only with salt pork and peas.
Covered with the pitch of yellow pine, and light enough to be carried on the shoulders of four men across portages, these canoes yet had toughness equal to any river voyage. They were provisioned with smoked meat and Indian corn. Shoved clear of the beach, they shot out on the blue water to the dip of paddles. Marquette waved his adieu.
A daring chief undertook to head an expedition, and six native preachers volunteered to go and settle with their wives and families among the heathen islanders, and to convey to them faithfully the gospel of salvation. Two large canoes were fitted out, strengthened for the voyage, and stored and provisioned.
Toulon offered them safety; it seemed impregnable, as much by its situation as by the number and strength of its defenders. It could also defy any siege, since the sea was open, and it could by this channel be provisioned through the English and Spanish fleet. No one trembled before the little army of seventeen thousand men which, under General Carteaux, had invested Toulon.
There was a murmur of astonished protest. "Let him into the fort!" exclaimed Bowman. "Certainly," said the Colonel; "if he finds he cannot get in, he will be off before the dawn to assemble the tribes." "But the fort is provisioned for a month," Bowman expostulated; "and they must find out to-morrow how weak we are." "To-morrow will be too late," said Clark. "And suppose he shouldn't go in?"
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