It was impossible to carry a large stock of provisions.

The roads were so bad and the horses so weak, that the baggage waggons had all been left far behind.

The chief officers of the army were consequently in want of necessaries; and the ill-humour which was the natural effect of these privations was increased by the insensibility of James, who seemed not to be aware that every body about him was not perfectly comfortable, [189] On the fourteenth of April the King and his train proceeded to Omagh.
The rain fell: the wind blew: the horses could scarcely make their way through the mud, and in the face of the storm; and the road was frequently intersected by torrents which might almost be called rivers.
The travellers had to pass several fords where the water was breast high.

Some of the party fainted from fatigue and hunger.

All around lay a frightful wilderness.