The morning was fine, the sky clear, and the ground covered with hoar frost.

It was, pleasing to see so large a camp, passing without noise, inconvenience, or disorder of any kind in so large a river.
The platformed boats were numerous, and so were the pier-heads prepared on both sides, for the convenience of embarking and landing.
Carriages, horses, palankeens, camels and troops, all passed without the slightest difficulty.

The elephants were preparing to cross, some in boats and some by swimming, as might seem to them best.

Some refuse to swim, and others to enter boats, and some refuse to do either; but the fault is generally with their drivers.

On the present occasion, two or three remained behind, one plunged into the stream from his boat, in the middle of the river, with his driver on his back, and both disappeared for a time, but neither was hurt.