Page:The invasion of the Crimea Vol 6.djvu/559

 APPENDIX. 515 with the butt-ends of their muskets. He at length became senseless, and the next thing he recognised was the sound of English voices. He heard the soldiers say that ' the poor ' fellow was done for,' and had not yet the strength to con- tradict them by either voice or sign. To find out whether he was really dead or not, they lifted up his body, and then banged it down heavily on the ground. They then saw that he was alive, and before long he was able to speak. They carried him off the field ; and when I saw him many years afterwards (in 1869) he was, as I understood, in per- fectly good health ! Several of the bayonet-thrusts he received were in the sides and elsewhere in the trunk, and one was quite close to the stomach. He says that after re- covering his consciousness he became impressed with an idea that, in spite of all he had undergone, he was destined to hve tlirough the danger. He speaks with no savageness of his assailants, and is quite ready to make full allowance for the excesses of a soldiery excited and fighting in brush- wood. NOTE IX. Approximate Computation of Allied Infantry on Mount Inkerman which was still in an Organised STATE AT THE OPENING OF THE ThIRD PeRIOD. On the right and right froni. The 'hay picket,' the remains of Champion's wing of 95th, of right wing of Horsford's Rifle bat- talion, and of Captain Wilson's Coldstream men ; altogether, it is believed, about. . 250 French 6th of the Line, .... 750 1000