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 4.32 APPENDIX. Note 9. — When the soldier was camped before Sehastopol in the autumn of 1854, the very enemy used to send him the means of roasting and pounding his coffee ; for fragments of shell served capitally for both the processes. The camp used in those days to be fragrant with the aroma — too rare in England — the aroma given out by the coiiee-berry whilst scorching under the action of heat. In one of our campaigns at the Capo, green coffee had been found to answer its purpose admirably, for there the roast- ing and pounding of the berry proved easy enough ; and besides, in its green state, coflFee had the great advantage of not being spoilt by wet. Note 10. — Chelsea Rep., p. 373. Whenever, after the 10th of December, supplies of fresh vegetables came in, the men had them gratis ; but as regards this portion of the food provided for the soldier, he seems to have been rather indifferent ; so that when apprised, as sometimes happened, that a supply of fresh vegetables awaited his pleasure, he too often spared his weary limbs the trouble of fetching them. Whether from prejudice or for some good reason, he long I'ejected the preserved potato, and only after nearly two months began to try it. Note 11. — Mr Filder to Su- C. Trevelyan, 8th November 1854. Note 12. — ^The London authorities and the people they em- ployed took between them more than six months in meeting this requisition ! Note 13. — In the Esk, vSecond Seb. Comm., Rep., p. 503, and — correcting the date — Chelsea Rep., p. 374. I have not Dr Andrew Smith's requisition before me, but it seems to have been made in October 1854, and upon so large a scale — 40,000 lb. to begin with — as to make some of the authorities imagine there must be a mistake. Dr Andrew Smith, however, meant nothing less than that there should be a ration of three ounces of the lime-juice for every soldier during a period of three months. Note 14. — Lord Raglan's interposition occuiTed in this way: Having calUd for a return of the various goods in store, he found, when he saw it, that a large provision of lime-juice was included amongst them, and he thereupon — 29th January 1855 — issued an order, directing that lime-juice should form part of the soldier's ration. Note 15. — A receiving ship, asked for in good time — so early as the 8th of September 1854 — ' for invalids and supernumeraries, ' with an experienced master, sui-geon, a sergeant's guard of