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Through Three Campaigns

CHAPTER 3: The First Fight
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I would willingly carry double my present load, if I felt sure that I would gain that advantage.

I know that the officers have tins of condensed milk, one of which can make more than a gallon; and that they carry cocoa, and other things, of which a little goes a long way.

Now, if they could condense rice and ghee like that, we should be able to carry all that is necessary with us for twelve days.
Mutton we could always get on a campaign, for the enemy's flocks are at our disposal; and it must be a bare place, indeed, where we could not find enough meat to keep us going.

It is against our religion to eat beef, but few of us would hesitate to do so, on a campaign; and oxen are even more common than sheep.
"It is very little baggage we should have to take with us, then.
Twenty ponies would carry sufficient for the regiment; and if government did but buy us good mules, we could always rely upon getting them into camp before dark.

See what an advantage that would be! Ten men would do for the escort; whereas, at present, a hundred is not sufficient." "Well, I wish it could be so," Lisle said.


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