We had also two side-saddles, which, not being munitions of war, could not properly (as we explained) be transferred like other captured articles to the general stock; otherwise the P.Q.

M.( a married man) would have showed no unnecessary delay in their case.
For miscellaneous accommodation was there not an ambulance,--that most inestimable of army conveniences, equally ready to carry the merry to a feast or the wounded from a fray.

"Ambulance" was one of those words, rather numerous, which Ethiopian lips were not framed by Nature to articulate.

Only the highest stages of colored culture could compass it; on the tongue of the many it was transformed mystically as "amulet," or ambitiously as "epaulet," or in culinary fashion as "omelet." But it was our experience that an ambulance under any name jolted equally hard.
Besides these divertisements, we had more laborious vocations,--a good deal of fatigue, and genuine though small alarms.

The men went on duty every third day at furthest, and the officers nearly as often,--most of the tours of duty lasting twenty-four hours, though the stream was considered to watch itself tolerably well by daylight.