It is important that we should form some estimate as to their numbers." In half an hour they met again, and crawled along for some distance side by side in silence.
"How many should you say, Paolo ?" "They were lying four deep as far as I could make out, master.

I kept very close to the outside line.

I could not count them accurately because of the trees, but I should say that there were about two hundred and fifty in a line." "That was very close to what I reckoned them at.

At any rate, it is a regiment about a thousand strong.

They are musketeers, for several times I went close enough to feel their arms.