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 EFFECT OF GIVING TIME. 9 — painfully employed in carrying up the supplies chap, over miles and miles of deep quagmire, whilst ' also, and at the very same time, might be seen on the track by Karani a team reckoning no less that from thirty to forty of our few surviving horses, engaged in dragging up to the front by ploughing and ploughing and ploughing through depths and depths of clay some mighty gun, judged to be wanted for the all - demanding siege* There were Frenchmen at this cruel time who complacently spoke of their efforts to 'galvanise' into activity the English sloth ;t yet Canrobert himself frankly owned that the whole of the army thus taunted for not doing more heavy siege-work in addition to its other huge tasks, was scarcely greater in numbers than one of his strongest divisions.} IV When determining once more to take time, one of the the Allies of course could not but know they confemwfoD were giving time to the enemy; but, though by giving making him, and knowingly making him, this dangerous concession, they did not apprehend its full import. In words hardly varied from those that were Todieben's used once before, it seems fitting here to repeat drawing that, besides their other artillery, the garrison from time; t Bizot to Marshal Vaillant, quoted by Rousset, vol. ii. p. 32. t Ibid., p. 14.
 * Journal Royal Engineers, vol. i. p. 69.