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route lay. Here let me add a word of 

 advice to my young military readers who 

 may not have had any of my experience. 

 When on active service, never omit to 

 take the exact bearings of where you 

 march from, and the place for which you 

 are bound ; a small shilling compass 

 will guide you, and if you recollect the 

 latitude and longitude of the place you 

 have quitted, you will be able to put your- 

 self in the right direction in the event of 

 a repulse, or of being thrown out, or 

 losing the column. By following this 

 plan you may also be the means of saving 

 many of your comrades. But I must go 

 on with my adventure. 



I was glad to see, after a time, that the 

 daylight was declining, and, when once it 

 begins to sink, it is very rapid in eastern 

 countries. I lay as still as I could, for I 



