It was about night when we had completed…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

It was about night when we had completed our arrangements, and Pachie advised us not to try to leave the city that night, but to pull out about two hundred yards and camp, which advice we followed. There were four of us as I have said before, and we divided the night into watches of two hours, two keeping guard while the others slept. At least, that was the