In the last named were packed necessaries for the journey, and each provided himself with a brace of double-barrelled pistols.

The rest of their effects were packed in the trunks they had bought at Jersey, and were handed over to a Portuguese firm of carriers, to be sent up to the regiment.
At two o'clock they mounted and rode to Sobral.

The next day they rode to Santarem, and on the following evening to Abrantes.

They here learned that their corps was in camp, with two other Portuguese regiments, four miles higher up the river.

As it was dark when they arrived at Abrantes, they agreed to sleep there and go on the next morning; as Terence wished to report himself to General Hill, to whose division the regiment was attached, until operations should commence in the spring.
They put up at an inn and, having eaten a meal, walked out into the town, which was full of British soldiers.