And, veterans and youths, were they not bound to be enrolled together in that noble Light Division, the glory of which was already lifting above the horizon, soon to blaze across heaven?
Sergeant Henderson did not suffer from seasickness.

For no reward-- unless it be the fierce delight of tackling a difficulty for its own sake--he had sworn to make a bugler of me, given moderately bad weather: and when the evening of September 2nd brought us off the coast of Portugal, he allowed me to shake hands over his success.
Early next morning we began to disembark at a place called Figueira, by the mouth of the Mondego river.

I stepped ashore with a swelling heart.
But I carried also a portentously swollen under-lip, with a crack in it which showed signs of festering.

Now there was a base hospital at Figueira, to the surgeon in charge of which fell the duty of inspecting the men as they landed and detaining those who were sick or physically unfit.

I need not say that his eye was arrested at once by my unfortunate lip.