94 REMINISCENCES OF 



horses were. I got a great big useful beast. The 

 officer in charge could not quite make us out as our 

 dress was so plain, and all the others were in full 

 dress. " Haben sie kein Epauletten P" he said. 

 " Ja wohl, wir sind noch nicht angezogen" From 

 Dusseldorf we went to Cologne, and then to Bonn. 

 The camp was at Eiskirchen, about twelve miles off. 

 Thirty thousand men were under canvas. We had 

 carriages provided to drive to the ground. Troop 

 horses for those who required them. Dinner in the 

 town hall on our return. There were about sixty 

 English officers. The Duke of Cambridge, Lord de 

 Ros, Charles Ibbetson, nth Hussars, R. Wood, loth 

 Hussars, Rodolf de Sales, 8th Hussars, Henry de 

 Bathe, Guards, Sir Henry Bethune, Commander-in- 

 Chief of the Persian Army, etc. Lots of Dutchmen, 

 capital fellows. Some of the old ones had been 

 quartered in England in the Brunswick Brigade ; no 

 Frenchmen. 



When we left Bonn I gave Jim some money and 

 told him to get home as soon as he could. When 

 we got to London he was standing at the door of 

 Limmer's Hotel. Dickson and I went on to Ehren- 

 breitstein. We put up at Weisse Taube, and slept 

 in the same room. Next morning I said, " Shall we 

 go home to-day ? " " Yes, the bugs have settled 

 it." 



We started to sail down the Rhine and found on 



board Bill Duff, who was courting Mrs. , a 



widow : as soon as he got home he married her ; 

 another widow, very pretty, whom Dickson took to 



