Upon the river bank beyond the square were the tents of the engineers and Rait's battery of artillery, and the camps of Wood's and Russell's regiments.

The river, some seventy yards wide, ran round three sides of the camp thirty feet below its level.
The work which the engineers had accomplished was little less than marvelous.

Eighty miles of road had been cut and cleared, every stream, however insignificant, had been bridged, and attempts made to corduroy every swamp.

This would have been no great feat through a soft wood forest with the aid of good workmen.

Here, however, the trees were for the most part of extremely hard wood, teak and mahogany forming the majority.