I did not see any of their faces.

I didn't want to, for I'm sure no decently pretty woman would allow herself to be made such an object as that." The same work of unloading and transporting goods to the shore, which had gone on at Malta, was continued here.

Every day fresh troops arrived, English and French, and the whole of the undulating plain round Gallipoli was dotted with their camps.

By the end of the month 22,000 French and some 10,000 English were gathered there.
After the day's work was done, the midshipmen often got leave ashore, and enjoyed the scene of bustle and confusion which reigned there.
Enormous numbers of pack animals and bullock-carts were at work, and even at this early period of the campaign the immense superiority of the French arrangements over the English was manifest.

This was but natural, as the French, like other European nations, had been in the habit in time of peace of regarding the army as a machine which might be required for war, and had therefore kept the commissariat, transport, and other arrangements in a state of efficiency.