The space below decks was too small to accommodate the whole of the troops, and a third of their number had to be constantly on deck; and this for a ten days' voyage in a heavy sea, with occasional rain-showers, is not, under ordinary circumstances, calculated to raise the spirits of troops.

But men bound on active and dangerous service are always in the highest spirits, and make light of disagreeables and hardships of all kinds.
They had expected to find Ostend full of troops, for several regiments had landed before them; but they soon found they were to be marched inland.

As soon as the regiment had landed they marched to a spot where a standing camp had been erected for the use of troops on their passage through.

Their baggage was at once sent forward, and the men had therefore nothing to do but to clean up their arms and accoutrements, and to wander as they pleased through the town.

They started early next morning, and after two days' marching arrived at Ghent, where several regiments were quartered, either in the town itself or in the villages round it.