There is a Scotch regiment with them, whose appearance in kilts and feathers in no slight degree astonishes both the people and my own soldiers.

Their cavalry are very fine, too.

They have much heavier horses than ours, and should be terrible in a charge.
"How long have you been on the road ?" "I have been eighteen days, sir.

I could have ridden faster myself, having a spare charger, but my orderly could hardly travel more rapidly; and indeed, when I got to Magdeburg, and found that it was not likely that there would be any engagement for some time, I allowed the horses three days' rest, so that they should be fit for service as soon as they arrived here." A tent was at once erected in the staff lines for Fergus.

He found, upon inquiry, that the British division was at present at Muenster.
He was invited by the duke to dinner that evening, and was introduced to the officers of the staff; who received him courteously, but with some surprise that one so young should not only bear the rank of major, but the coveted insignia of the Black Eagle.
The duke, however, when the introductions were over, gave them a short account of the newcomer's services, and after dinner begged Fergus to tell them how he escaped from Linz; and they had a hearty laugh over the manner in which he and his companions obtained their first disguise.
"I have heard something of this," Colonel Zolwyn, the head of the staff, said.