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 304 THE EMBAKKATION. CHAP, horses of the army, and the force was not provided '__ with means of land-transport either for the tents of the men or for the baggage of the officers. There were also on board large supplies of field- ammunition, of food for the troops, and of barley and hay for the horses. In some of the horse- transports there was an insufiiciency of the forage required for the voyage. With that grave excep- tion, all the arrangements seem to have been good. Due means had been taken for insuring, so far as was possible, the simultaneous transit, not only of our ships of war, but of the whole force which Lord Eaglan had embarked, together with its vast appendage of warlike stores and pro- visions ; for every sailing-vessel, whether she were a ship of war or a transport, was towed by a suf- ficiently powerful steamer. None of our ships of war carried troops on board ; they were all, there- fore, ready for action. Troops an.i In addition to the forces and the means of land- at Varna. transport which were actually on board, Lord Kag- lan had in readiness for embarkation the whole brigade of heavy cavalry, another division of in- fantry, a siege-train, and some five or six thou- sand pack-horses.* The sick remained in Bulgaria, and such of the men out of hospital as seemed to be in a very weakly state were left at Varna and employed in garrison duty. at Varna ; the Scots Greys were on tlio Bosijhorus ; and the rest of the lieavy cavalry in Bulgaria, wlicrc also the Lat-borsca were left. Tiic sir^c-train was on board ofT Varna.
 * Tho additional division of infantry (the 4th Division) was