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128 half of them undisciplined, into boats tossing about in a restless sea, but that will be easy work compared to the labour of the lowering into them of horses and guns and wagons, with no mechanical appliances save those which the ships can furnish; and that labour and those difficulties will be multiplied a hundred-fold when it comes to transferring the contents of the boats to the beach, with no appliances of any kind, only ropes and men's hands to carry out the operation. Terrified, sick, shaken, the horses may yet be coaxed, or coerced into wading or swimming ashore; but how are the guns, how are the wagons, to be lifted out and dragged through the shingle and sand, into which the wheels of the latter will sink up to their axles?

And how, if the day proves the one out of five when "a swell or other difficulties of the sea" would prevent a disembarkation, or the one day in twenty when "vessels would