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 APPENDIX, 437 ' out with drafts of men to Kululi and there wait my orders, if ' steam conveyance could be procured for them, not otherwise. ' Sailing-ships would be destruction to them.' NOTES TO CHAPTER VIII. Note 1. — Todleben, vol. i. p. 705 et seq. After saying that the number of sick was at one time 25,000, he adds, that the hospital accommodation sufficed for only 15,250 patients, thus showing that there was deficiency for 9750. Note 2. — It was so that the men used to call their tentes iVahri. The construction was called by the French a ' dog-tent,' because, like a dog, a man had to crawl into it on all-fours. Cam'obert spoke with envy of the English tents, condemning the tente d'abri as a wTetched expedient that kept his men ' dans la boue. ' He said he had sent to France for tents like ours, but it seems that what his Government despatched to him was only the canvas part of the tents without the poles, and therefore — at least for the time — the supply he received proved useless. — Lord Raglan to Duke of Newcastle, 6th Januai-y 1855. Note 3. — General Bosquet, after stating to Lord Raglan on the 12th of January, that he had that morning had reported to him the seizure of 139 men in the night by frost-bite, referred to his wretched tentes d'abri, and said, ' Oh that I could have your tents ! ' — Lord Raglan to Duke of Newcastle, 13th January 1855. Note 4. — It is stated by a French writer (M. Rousset), who seems to have seen a list of them, that the articles thus bought or made were 60,000 cowled mantles (called by the French soldiers ' Crimeans ') ; 15,000 sheepskin coats, and supplies of leggings, gaiters, socks, caps, woollen gloves; 100,000 flannel belts; and 50,000 pairs of 'sabots' — i.e., wooden shoes. — ' Histoire de la ' Guerre de Crimi^e,' vol. i. p. 348. Note 5. — ' Ddj^ la capote h capuchon, le paletot de peau de ' mouton dominent dans nos camps.' Canrobert, 28th Nov. — Ibid. Note 6. — ' War appeared in all its horrors ; men exhausted by ' illness, scarce protected by a few rags of covering, arrived on 'the beach to be embarked.' — 'Rapport Officiel,' p. 76. The reporter goes on to show, by way of instance, that out of the 720 hapless beings thus circumstanced, who formed the cargo of one vessel, the Jean Bart, 300 were frost-bitten. — Ibid.