So on they went.

In all that crowd of suffering men I did not hear a single complaint.

Administration is not the strong point of the British officer.

"We are only sportsmen," said one of them with a sigh, as he crawled up the platform, torn with dysentery and fever.
In front of the wounded were a lot of open trucks for such townspeople as chose to go.

They had hustled a few rugs and lumps of bedding together, and, sitting on these, they made the best of war.