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adorned with wings : whether emblematic of the city and the swiftness of her fl ^ et , I leave to the learned to decide . The ruins of a handsome church stand at the end of the promenade and command a view of the entire city , harbour and all . All the churches have been set on fire , and nothing of them remains except the four walls and the domes , which are painted green .
The southern part of the town has been utterly destroyed . It is indescribably depressing to witness such ruin of man ' s handy-work , and to think at what a cost of precious life it has been accomplished . Few pens could do justice to the extraordinary figures that met our sight . Imagine rough tars , with bottles and rich pelisses ,
pictures and plate , under their arms , while their heads are decorated with furred caps , turbans , and in one instance a small coquettish French bonnet was stuck at the back of a Highlander ' s red head . Zouaves were walking off with arm-chairs , Chasseurs-a-pied with richly-framed mirrors ; two French seamen were gravely examining the contents of a costly workbox ; men of our line might be seen wrapped in Indian shawls .
I purchased a splendidly-ornamented sabre from a Zouave , two shawls from an Irishman , and , curious enough , a canary-bird and cage from a dapper little Chasseur de Vincennes , who made me pay more than both the others put together . Laden with these spoils , I returned to the terrace and took a last look at Sebastopol .
I had little dreamed when I started on our pleasure-party , that I should have stood upon these dearly-purchased ruins ! At all events , our troops will have comfortable winter quarters , and the terrible scenes of last year will not be again enacted . Having learned the features of the scene off by heart , I returned to the yacht , thankful at having seen so much , and that such sightseeing was over .
My spoils excited great interest ; and I was put through a severe cross-examination as to how I obtained them . The cage and bird I presented to Miss Kate P ., and a shawl to Lady O . The colonel was well enough to join us in the evening , though extremely pale and interesting . Sir Arthur and our good skipper , with the Hon . Fitzurse , came back very late , full of the horrors they had seen .
The former had been admitted to see poor H ., who is much better , and able to speak . He has engaged him to make P Park his head-quarters on his return to England . We had numerous visitors this evening ; one of them , Mons . le Capitaine S , hearing me mention my anxiety to return to England , has most kindly offered me a passage to Marseilles in his fine steam-ship the O , which sails to-morrow with despatches and a wounded general . The opportunity is too good to be thrown away , though my kind friends here cry out at my desertion of them . Indeed , Miss P . entreated me to remain with such sweet earnest-
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adorned with wings : whether emblematic of the city and the swiftness of her fl ^ et , I leave to the learned to decide . The ruins of a handsome church stand at the end of the promenade and command a view of the entire city , harbour and all . All the churches have been set on fire , and nothing of them remains except the four walls and the domes , which are painted green .
The southern part of the town has been utterly destroyed . It is indescribably depressing to witness such ruin of man ' s handy-work , and to think at what a cost of precious life it has been accomplished . Few pens could do justice to the extraordinary figures that met our sight . Imagine rough tars , with bottles and rich pelisses ,
pictures and plate , under their arms , while their heads are decorated with furred caps , turbans , and in one instance a small coquettish French bonnet was stuck at the back of a Highlander ' s red head . Zouaves were walking off with arm-chairs , Chasseurs-a-pied with richly-framed mirrors ; two French seamen were gravely examining the contents of a costly workbox ; men of our line might be seen wrapped in Indian shawls .
I purchased a splendidly-ornamented sabre from a Zouave , two shawls from an Irishman , and , curious enough , a canary-bird and cage from a dapper little Chasseur de Vincennes , who made me pay more than both the others put together . Laden with these spoils , I returned to the terrace and took a last look at Sebastopol .
I had little dreamed when I started on our pleasure-party , that I should have stood upon these dearly-purchased ruins ! At all events , our troops will have comfortable winter quarters , and the terrible scenes of last year will not be again enacted . Having learned the features of the scene off by heart , I returned to the yacht , thankful at having seen so much , and that such sightseeing was over .
My spoils excited great interest ; and I was put through a severe cross-examination as to how I obtained them . The cage and bird I presented to Miss Kate P ., and a shawl to Lady O . The colonel was well enough to join us in the evening , though extremely pale and interesting . Sir Arthur and our good skipper , with the Hon . Fitzurse , came back very late , full of the horrors they had seen .
The former had been admitted to see poor H ., who is much better , and able to speak . He has engaged him to make P Park his head-quarters on his return to England . We had numerous visitors this evening ; one of them , Mons . le Capitaine S , hearing me mention my anxiety to return to England , has most kindly offered me a passage to Marseilles in his fine steam-ship the O , which sails to-morrow with despatches and a wounded general . The opportunity is too good to be thrown away , though my kind friends here cry out at my desertion of them . Indeed , Miss P . entreated me to remain with such sweet earnest-