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the Indian army was drawn by bullocks, it
passed with much facility.
The first hospitable spot to be met with,
after leaving Cossir, is Barimba, or Bahcon-
ra ; it is on the border of the desert, and
about twenty miles from Kinneh, or Cunei.
Here plenty of milk, eggs, and poultry, were
sold by the Arabs. Colonel Carruthers lost
only one drum-boy during the whole of the
route.
Sir Robert Wilson, speaking of some of
the corps that passed this way, observes, that,
notwithstanding the positive orders not to
stop, as camels were provided to bring on
the sick, many of the soldiers perished, hi
consequence of their concealing themselves
on the march, for the purpose qf lying down
to sleep. <
Sir Rpbert observes, that the troops from
India brought rnuskatts, • or leather bags,
to hold their water ; but which often leak-
ing, and becoming unfit for use, occasioned
much distress. From the example of the
Turks, water-kegs alone were found most
durable ; though they also used pig-skins,
or rnuskatts, which being frequently dipped
in the Nile, it preserved them, by keeping
them always moist ; and thus, while the
English army, on its march to Cairo, was
suffering all the inconveniencies of thirst,
each company of Turks, affixing the skins of
water on each side of a horse, every man
man helped himself as he passed, and there
-was no want of a supply.
the Indian army was drawn by bullocks, it
passed with much facility.
The first hospitable spot to be met with,
after leaving Cossir, is Barimba, or Bahcon-
ra ; it is on the border of the desert, and
about twenty miles from Kinneh, or Cunei.
Here plenty of milk, eggs, and poultry, were
sold by the Arabs. Colonel Carruthers lost
only one drum-boy during the whole of the
route.
Sir Robert Wilson, speaking of some of
the corps that passed this way, observes, that,
notwithstanding the positive orders not to
stop, as camels were provided to bring on
the sick, many of the soldiers perished, hi
consequence of their concealing themselves
on the march, for the purpose qf lying down
to sleep. <
Sir Rpbert observes, that the troops from
India brought rnuskatts, • or leather bags,
to hold their water ; but which often leak-
ing, and becoming unfit for use, occasioned
much distress. From the example of the
Turks, water-kegs alone were found most
durable ; though they also used pig-skins,
or rnuskatts, which being frequently dipped
in the Nile, it preserved them, by keeping
them always moist ; and thus, while the
English army, on its march to Cairo, was
suffering all the inconveniencies of thirst,
each company of Turks, affixing the skins of
water on each side of a horse, every man
man helped himself as he passed, and there
-was no want of a supply.