First were rolled on shore barrels containing six thousand bushels of meal.

Then came great cheeses, casks of beef, flitches of bacon, kegs of butter, sacks of Pease and biscuit, ankers of brandy.

Not many hours before, half a pound of tallow and three quarters of a pound of salted hide had been weighed out with niggardly care to every fighting man.

The ration which each now received was three pounds of flour, two pounds of beef, and a pint of Pease.

It is easy to imagine with what tears grace was said over the suppers of that evening.