Come, let's climb the fence and go down through this skirt of bushes." The suggestion appealed to the daring and curiosity of both, and in a few minutes they were within two hundred yards of the Northern camp.
But they lay very close in the undergrowth.

They saw a big fire and Harry judged that four or five hundred men were scattered about.
Many were asleep on the grass, but others sat up talking.

The appearance of all was so extraordinary that Harry gazed in astonishment.
It was not the faces or forms of the men, but their dress that was so peculiar.

They were arrayed in huge blouses and vast baggy trousers of a blazing red, fastened at the knee and revealing stockings of a brilliant hue below.

Little tasselled caps were perched on the sides of their heads.