they nearly mutinied in consequence. Prince Menschikoff had again to bear all the blame for this as for the millet-seed.

On the evening of the 31st we learnt that the 4th corps had arrived to relieve us, and that this would be our last night in the town. All night we were anxiously expecting the 10th division, but the day broke and they had not arrived.

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ON the 1st of November we received the order that the 10th division would relieve us at ten o'clock that morning. It would be impossible to describe the joy with which this intelligence was received by both officers and men; we all congratulated ourselves that we had got safely through the fortnight's bombardment, and were again about to enjoy a little fresh country air out of the town. About half-past ten A.M. the regiment of Ekatherinenburg of the 10th division made its appearance to occupy the place of our regiment; it was stationed in the houses of the Bolshaya Morskaya street. Our regiment moved down towards the Grafsky Prestan and remained on the Place behind Fort Nicholas till one o'clock.

Here the men dined, and received four days' provisions. Out of curiosity I went into Fort Nicholas, which I found full of women and children; these were the families of those who did not possess the means of leaving the town, and were all collected here as in a place of safety. Four guns had been placed in the corridor of the fort, in the upper story, and they bore upon the town. On the Place behind the fort there were two field batteries, that in case of an assault were to have taken up positions already arranged in the streets. I afterwards went into the assembly-rooms that served as the principal field hospital for the western part of the town. The filth in this place was disgusting. While I was here, a soldier of the regiment of Ekatherinenburg came up to me, and pointing to a surgeon' said, "Is it possible they do such things in your regiment?" I asked him what was the matter. "Why," said he, "you see, we had brought in a poor wounded comrade; he was wounded in the knee by a splinter from a shell: the doctor, having examined the wound, began to cut the leg of the wounded man, who cried out, when the doctor struck him in the face for making a noise: it must have hurt him, having his leg cut. I only wish I had firelock here, I'd pay the doctor out! but he

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I tried to pacify the man by telling him that such things never happened in our regiment. How unfitted must be a man for an army surgeon who has not patience to hear his patients cry out; besides, he was armed with a weapon similar to those I had always seen used for cutting up firewood, but never before for surgical operations. I hurried from the spot disgusted, and thanking Heaven that I had hitherto been spared from falling into the clutches of such a monster. Chloroform was sometimes given to the officers while undergoing an operation, but never to the men.

About one o'clock we embarked from the Admiralty in steamers that carried us across to the north side of the harbour. We now learnt that our brigade was to be attached to the column of General Liprandi on the river Chernaya. During the time we were crossing the river, and from the north side, we enjoyed an excellent view of the town and the works of the Allies, and could see distinctly where the shot and shell pitched on both sides. We halted for some time near the barracks, where the Colonel, whom we had not seen while in the town, joined the regiment, together with some of the other officers who had skulked from the shot and shell in the town. At three o'clock

we moved across the heights of Mackenzie to the village of Chorgoun, which we reached at eleven o'clock that night, and bivouacked in the open air. The men too were obliged to go without their suppers, as the transport with the camp-kettles, &c., did not arrive till one o'clock. During this march a great many men fell out from fatigue caused chiefly by weakness, brought on by improper nourishment and irregularity while in the town. Many of the men ate little, but drank all they could obtain; they constantly exclaimed that they hoped they would never be wounded; to be killed they did not much object to, but to be wounded, then tormented in the hospital, and to die after all, was a much harder case than to be killed outright. This serves to show the amount of confidence the men had in the hospitals and surgeons. We slept that night the more soundly that we did not hear the warning voice of the look-out as he shouted "To the right!" "Left!" or "Mind yourselves!'

At eleven o'clock on the 2nd of November we crossed the river Chernaya, and took up our position behind the Azoff (Canrobert's) hill, without crossing the Woronzow road; we consequently formed the left flank of the army of General Liprandi before Balaclava. It began to be rumoured among the officers that we were