A visit to the camp before Sevastopol . CAN FEELING. When it was surmised that a winter campaign beforeSevastopol would be inevitable, orders were sent toEngland for the preparation of a large number ofwooden houses or huts for the use of the troops, thetents being altogether too frail for winter these anxiously looked-for tenementsdid not begin to arrive until the middle of January,when the severe weather had given way to a spring-like temperature. They were gladly welcomed, how-ever, as promising much better protection from theheavy rains and scathing winds than the
A visit to the camp before Sevastopol . CAN FEELING. When it was surmised that a winter campaign beforeSevastopol would be inevitable, orders were sent toEngland for the preparation of a large number ofwooden houses or huts for the use of the troops, thetents being altogether too frail for winter these anxiously looked-for tenementsdid not begin to arrive until the middle of January,when the severe weather had given way to a spring-like temperature. They were gladly welcomed, how-ever, as promising much better protection from theheavy rains and scathing winds than the fragile can-vas, and numbers were speedily erected in the High-land and other camps near to Balaldava, as well as 154 A VISIT TO THE CAMP upon several streets in the village, and particularlyto increase the hospital accommodations. The hut or barrack of which the following cut is acorrect representation, was entered by a single door,with a window above, and two sliding windows at theother end for light and ventilation. The roof, and ends, were made water-tight by a system of closeboarding, and the nailing of narrow battens over thejoints. The roof was covered with black felt. Eachhut measured twenty-eight feet long by sixteen feetwide, and was intended to lodge twenty-five men. Itrequired sixty horses, or one hundred and fifty men, toconvey the materials of a single hut from the harborto the camp. A man could scarcely manage to makeany progress through the deep mud even with oneplank on his shoulder. The vessels containing the huts made an extensiveaddition to the mass of shipping already in the har-bor. They were chiefly iron screw steamers, long, BEFORE SEVASTOPOL. 155 low, narrow, and of small tonnage, built for the col-lier}^ trade on the north British coast, and illy suited tomake agreeable headway in the chopping and uncer-tain Mediterranean, Their captains, sturdy North-men, were among the most speculative and keen fel-lows that I met in the Crimea. The labor of
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