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 J 48 THK WIN'IKK TKUUBLES. CHAPTER VIII. THE SUFFERINGS OF THE AKMIES DUKING THE WINTER. CHAP. Of the Russians engaged during winter at this ^ theatre of war, a great proportion lived always Sufferings ^yith a roof overhead — some being in barracks of the Kiis- " Bianariny. within the lines of Sebastopol, some housed in neighbouring villages, some furnished with shelter in huts which the resources of the country enabled men to construct ; whilst even the troops out on duty, though suffering cruel hardsliips, had advantages not shared by their enemy in the opposite camp ; for they mainly were people accustomed to confront and with- stand northern winters, were the soldiers or the sailors of a State which perforce must equip its armed servants with means of outliving great cold ; and, withal, had behind them a garrison- 1 town and an arsenal which could not but yield them some means of struggling against the rigours of climate.