Note 261 — Chapter I
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“Hurrah!” he wrote; “this is good news. All here are prepared to meet your wishes to march as light as possible. I take no carriage from the Commissariat; and our officers are doubling up four in a small hill tent, and are sending all to the rear that they can dispense with.... I am so excited that I can scarce write.”—[General Sale to General Pollock: Futtehabad, August 16, 1842. MS. Correspondence.]