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 32G i'HK CANiS'ONADE OF CiiAi*. intended visit to the Kambi!l fuuboury- ; and he ^"^- based this attempt on the ground that the Admiral was already acquainted with the condition of things in that part of the lines : but Korniloff answered, ' What will the S(jldiers say of me if ' they do not see me to-day ? ' Korniloff now descended the road leading down to the head of the jNIan-of-war Harbour ; and at the Peressip, he was met by Todleben then re- Tiie mectinj,' tuming froui the Karabcl faubourg. During an.^Toalc. souic minutcs, and for the last time, the two great messii!^ defenders of Sebastopol — I called them the soul and the mind of the undertaking — took counsel together, Todleben by this time had completed his inspection of the defences along the whole of the front assailed by the Allies ; and, although he had found the Iledan reduced to a critical state by the fire of the English, he was able to report the success of the exertions since made to re- pair the harm done. His visit to the Karabel faubourg having been thus recent, it might seem that there was the less reason for KornilolT's o-oing thither ; but the Admiral had resolved, as we know, that in every part of the lines assailed the men should see their chief. KorniiufT Accordiugly, he parted from Todleben, and uptou.e riding on to the eastern or Karabel slope of the ravine, he ascended it, as he had often before done in these latter days of his life, by the steps cut out in the rock. He was quickly in the liedan ; and he found that the work, though undergoing a cross-fire of great weight and power Kedau :