Come, do what you can to make yourselves clean, or I will have buckets of water thrown over you.

I would rather take you on shore drenched to the skin than in that state.

You have brought it entirely on yourselves by your obstinacy.

Had you enlisted at once without further trouble you would not have suffered as you have." The fresh air and cold water soon revived even the most exhausted of the new recruits, and as soon as all had been made as presentable as circumstances would admit of, the order was given to land.

The party were formed on the quay, four abreast, the soldiers forming the outside line, and so they marched through Dover, where but yet a few people were up and stirring, to the camp formed just outside the walls of the castle.