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Notes Of A Yacht's Cruise To Balaklava.
NOTES OF A YACHT'S CRUISE TO BA . LAKLAVA .
( Continued from page 246 . ) September 2 nd . — Was called ~ at an unheard-of hour this morning , in order to reach the camp in time for prayers . We assembled in pretty good order to an early breakfast . The ladies , as usual , giving us the go-by , in all matters of enterprise .
The quay , as we landed , showed , to our inexperienced eye , a fearful confusion—dromedaries , ammunition-carts , ambulances , bearing sick and wounded from the trenches ; store-sheds , rows of barrels and heavy-looking sacks ; commissaries , military fatigue-parties , men of the naval brigade , tourists in wide-awake hats ; staff officers and araba drivers . But I am told the order now existing is perfect and irreproachable ; nevertheless , we were glad to pick our way clear of it .
The town appears to be a terribly tattered concern , with a couple of tumble-down churches . Having procured some mules , and two arabas , which are simply baskets on wheels , without springs , and drawn by a brace of bullocks , we commenced our long-anticipated journey to " The camp before Sebastopol . " The way led up a beautiful ravine , behind the town ; here we beheld mountains of rock , rent by some volcanic convulsion , and in their fissures are seen growing innumerable rare and beautiful trees , in all their luxuriant and variously-coloured
foliage . The ladies were laughing gaily as they reclined on some straw at the bottom of their basket , jolting unmercifully over the rough ascent . The little German , his keen grey optics hidden under a pair of blue goggles , bestrode a wretched mule ; Sir Arthur and I shared another araba ; while the colonel flourished about on a troophorse , lent him by some staff friend ; and Charles Fitzurse had a mule , of which he could make nothing : such was our cavalcade .
We soon mounted to higher ground , and were able to glance at the country . It presented an undulating appearance , rising into bold hills behind us ; but in front , broken into dells and ravines , clothed with a kind of scrub , and otherwise not unlike the face of a highland landscape . Our progress was slow , and , to our eager fancy , unnecessarily tedious , when we found ourselves more than an hour and a half doing six miles . At last we reached the outposts , and there remained , while the colonel rode on to obtain the desired order of admission . Nothing more barren and dreary than the country in which the camp is pitched can be imagined . Though really a high table-land , it is so extensive that it gives the idea of an undulating plain . The
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Notes Of A Yacht's Cruise To Balaklava.
NOTES OF A YACHT'S CRUISE TO BA . LAKLAVA .
( Continued from page 246 . ) September 2 nd . — Was called ~ at an unheard-of hour this morning , in order to reach the camp in time for prayers . We assembled in pretty good order to an early breakfast . The ladies , as usual , giving us the go-by , in all matters of enterprise .
The quay , as we landed , showed , to our inexperienced eye , a fearful confusion—dromedaries , ammunition-carts , ambulances , bearing sick and wounded from the trenches ; store-sheds , rows of barrels and heavy-looking sacks ; commissaries , military fatigue-parties , men of the naval brigade , tourists in wide-awake hats ; staff officers and araba drivers . But I am told the order now existing is perfect and irreproachable ; nevertheless , we were glad to pick our way clear of it .
The town appears to be a terribly tattered concern , with a couple of tumble-down churches . Having procured some mules , and two arabas , which are simply baskets on wheels , without springs , and drawn by a brace of bullocks , we commenced our long-anticipated journey to " The camp before Sebastopol . " The way led up a beautiful ravine , behind the town ; here we beheld mountains of rock , rent by some volcanic convulsion , and in their fissures are seen growing innumerable rare and beautiful trees , in all their luxuriant and variously-coloured
foliage . The ladies were laughing gaily as they reclined on some straw at the bottom of their basket , jolting unmercifully over the rough ascent . The little German , his keen grey optics hidden under a pair of blue goggles , bestrode a wretched mule ; Sir Arthur and I shared another araba ; while the colonel flourished about on a troophorse , lent him by some staff friend ; and Charles Fitzurse had a mule , of which he could make nothing : such was our cavalcade .
We soon mounted to higher ground , and were able to glance at the country . It presented an undulating appearance , rising into bold hills behind us ; but in front , broken into dells and ravines , clothed with a kind of scrub , and otherwise not unlike the face of a highland landscape . Our progress was slow , and , to our eager fancy , unnecessarily tedious , when we found ourselves more than an hour and a half doing six miles . At last we reached the outposts , and there remained , while the colonel rode on to obtain the desired order of admission . Nothing more barren and dreary than the country in which the camp is pitched can be imagined . Though really a high table-land , it is so extensive that it gives the idea of an undulating plain . The