It is really horrible work, especially as we get very little food and less drink.

It is not work for dogs." "It is all very well for you to grumble, Hallett, but you know just as well as I do that, if the offer were made to you to go home, at once, you would treat it with scorn." "Oh, of course I should! Still, one may be allowed to have one's grumble and, after all, I think we are pretty sure of some stiff fighting, which makes up for everything.

I am not afraid of the enemy a bit, but I do funk fever." "I don't think we are likely to get fever, so long as we are on the move; though I dare say a good many of us will go down with it, after the work is done.

We have only to think of the starving soldiers and people, in Coomassie, to make us feel that, whatever the difficulties and dangers may be, we must get there in time.

The great nuisance is, that we can get no news of what is doing there.
We constantly hear that the governor, with a portion if not all of the force, has broken out, some days since; and we begin to look out for them; and then, after a time, comes the news that there has been no sortie whatever.