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with spare horses arid men and most of the sick, with Captain 
Shakespear 1 2 and Lieutenant Whinyates, both very ill with fever, no 
medical officer during the voyage, but Lieut.-Colonel Dickson, 3 R.A., 
was invaluable to the sick in attending and making up medicines for 
them. There was also a large detachment of infantry on board this 
ship, and in No. 40, the “ Kenilworth,” in which was the centre 
division, with Captain Maude and myself both ill, he suffering from 
chronic diarrhoea, and I from fever which I had contracted in Yeeni 
bazaar. So ill was I that Assistant Surgeon A. S. Fogo, R.A., was 
sent on board to look after me, he returned to his own battery on our 
arrival at Baltschick Bay, where fortunately the rest and change set me 
up, so that I was able to attend to the sick on board, but I did not 
recover my strength for some time after landing in the Crimea. 
All the troops having embarked, we sailed from Varna on the 4th of 
September, and joined the rendezvous of the combined fleets at Baltschick 
Bay, when the whole sailed on the 7th for the Crimea, each steamer 
towing two sailing transports. The British were in six lines, the 
French on our right, and the Turks outside, whilst the men-of- 
war were stationed around us. It was one of the most magnificent 
sights that it is perhaps possible to conceive, there must have been 
some 300 vessels all moving steadily along. On the 10th of September 
the fleet anchored in the Black Sea, when I took the opportunity of 
visiting the other portions of the Troop, found in No. 1, one ill; in 
No. 61, nine sick; the same number in No. 85 ; in No. 40, there were 
only two sick. On the 14th, G-unner Hodgson died of cholera on board 
No. 61. The armies commenced landing this day near the Old Fort, 
north of Cape Loukoul, on a narrow strip of beach separating a large 
salt lake from the sea at Kalamita Bay ; we were not opposed by the 
enemy on landing. 
15th of September. The cavalry and artillery were landed this 
evening, last night was very wet and cold and the troops on shore 
were much exposed. 
16th of September. In consequence of a heavy swell breaking on 
shore, the remainder of the troops could not land, two guns, with 
Lieutenant Vandaleur and the cavalry, made a reconnaissance in a 
northerly direction, but without seeing anything of the Russians. 
1 7th of September. The remainder of the troops disembarked to¬ 
day, and the sick, 17 men, who were unfit to land, were sent on board 
the Kangaroo steamer, and Lieutenant Whinyates, being still too ill for 
duty, removed to another vessel. This was a great reduction of our 
strength, making 30 absent sick—that is, 13 at Varna, and now 17 
sent to Scutari, of course throwing much extra duty on the remainder. 
On the 18th of September we were still on the beach, and the dis¬ 
embarkation of the army completed : some of the divisions were sent 
southward in advance three or four miles. 
19th of September. At daylight the Troop marched to join the 
army and take up our position, which we did at 8 a.m. We then 
advanced for a few miles, when the whole army was formed in proper 
1 Now Colonel J. D. Shakespear. 
2 Now General Sir Collingwood Dickson, U(£., G.C.B. 
