It must be awful up on the plateau now.
Fancy twelve hours in the trenches, and then twelve hours in the tents, with no fires, and nothing but those thin great-coats, and scarcely anything to eat.

Now there's a move." A strong party of soldiers came down, lifted the stretchers, and in a few minutes the whole convoy were at the water's edge.

Other similar parties were already there, and alongside were a number of flat barges.

Upon these the invalids walked, or were carried, and the barges were then taken in tow by ships' boats, and rowed across the harbor to the north side.
"I hope to goodness," Jack said, looking up at the heights behind them, along which the lines of entrenchments were clearly visible against the white snow, "that our fellows won't take it into their heads to have a shot at us.

From our battery we often amused ourselves by sending a shell from one of the big Lancaster guns down at the ships in the harbor.