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Excerpt from Days of a Soldiers Life: Being Letters Written by the Late General Sir C. P. Beauchamp Walker, K. C. B., During Active Service in the Crimean, Chinese, Austro-Prussian (66), And Franco-German (70-71) WarsOn board the Melita, 23rdMoreExcerpt from Days of a Soldiers Life: Being Letters Written by the Late General Sir C. P. Beauchamp Walker, K. C. B., During Active Service in the Crimean, Chinese, Austro-Prussian (66), And Franco-German (70-71) WarsOn board the Melita, 23rd April, 1854. - Anticipating a good deal to do at Gibraltar, where we hope to arrive at 8 p.m., I shall try and scribble a few lines if the screw will only let me. As the experience of a five days voyage in the Melita, let me give you this advice, never under any circumstances but necessity, be tempted to undertake a voyage in a screw- the noise, the motion and rolling, are enough to destroy all ones philosophy. Having said this, I will dilate no more on disagreeables, but proceed to tell you that I and the beasts are remarkably well. Punch best, then Jemmy, and Sultan rather middling, with a bad cold. We have only lost one horse, a mare of Lord Lucans, which died of fright and sea-sickness on Thursday morning, though, we have had a very rough passage, and till to-day a very heavy roll of the ship day and night.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully- any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Days of a Soldiers Life: Being Letters Written by the Late General Sir C. P. Beauchamp Walker, K. C. B., During Active Service in the Crimean, Chinese, Austro-Prussian (66), and Franco-German (70-71) Wars (Classic Reprint) by Unknown author
