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"Here is our San Juan," Sommers replied dryly, pointing to the huddle of tents and pine sheds that formed the hospital camp. After they had visited Parker Hitchcock, Sommers conducted her over the camp. Some of the cots were occupied by gaunt figures of men whom she had known, and at the end of their inspection, she remarked thoughtfully: "I see that there is something to do here.
They halted, pitched their tents, fortified their camp, passed the whole night in continual alarms; and discovered at the dawn of day, that they were surrounded by an army of Persians. This army, which might be considered only as the van of the Barbarians, was soon followed by the main body of cuirassiers, archers, and elephants, commanded by Meranes, a general of rank and reputation.
Beyond them was the stretch of brown earth, where the cavalry exercises forbade a blade of grass to show itself. And beyond that, at the farther edge of the plain, the little white camp; its straight rows of tents and the alleys between all clearly marked out.
My kingdom is in peace, and I want no more than ten days to get myself ready to return with you. There is therefore no necessity for your entering the city for so short a period. I pray you to pitch your tents here, and I will order everything necessary to be provided for yourself and your attendants."
Each passer-by deposited a white stone on one of these Obos. This was supposed to bring good fortune. The guard-house itself, of rough stone, would in any country but Tibet be recognized as better fitted for pigs than for human beings. Having gone a mile or so further, as the sun was fast disappearing we searched for a suitable spot to pitch our tents.
More than a hundred Esquimaux, during the summer, planted their tents round Nain, to whom the missionaries preached the gospel.
Reaching the open country, we saw forts and camps on all sides; some of the tents being placed immediately on the ground, while others were raised over a basement of logs, laid lengthwise, like those of a log-hut, or driven vertically into the soil in a circle, thus forming a solid wall, the chinks closed up with Virginia mud, and above it the pyramidal shelter of the tent.
The rest immediately fell into platoons, forming a shapeless mass, but making so formidable a resistance, that the enemy could not again break it; and this regiment, with diminished numbers, finally regained its place in the line of battle. The emperor encamped behind the army of Italy, on the left of the high-road; the old guard formed in square around his tents.
In addition to this great military force, the British lost, and the Americans acquired, a fine train of artillery, seven thousand stand of excellent arms, clothing for seven thousand recruits, with tents, and other military stores, to a considerable amount.
"All right," he said, "All right I'll do whatever you tell me." "I won't risk it," said Priscilla. "You'd mean to do all right, but you wouldn't when the time came. That ankle of yours, you know. After all, it's just as easy to run her up into the wind and stay her." "There's a man at the door of one of the tents looking at us through a pair of glasses," said Frank. "Let him," said Priscilla.
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