Each man and officer carried three days' provisions, and no tents or other unnecessary stores were to be landed.

The artillery, however, had to be got ashore, and the work of landing the guns on the shingly beach was a laborious one indeed.

The horses in vain tugged and strained, and the sailors leaped over into the water and worked breast high at the wheels, and so succeeded in getting them ashore.

Jack had asked permission from Captain Stuart to spend the night on shore with his brother, and just as he was going off from the ship for the last time.
Simmonds, who had obtained his acting commission in place of Mr.
Pascoe, said, "Archer, I should advise you to take a tarpaulin and a couple of bottles of rum.

They will be useful before morning, I can tell you, for we are going to have a nasty night." Indeed the rain was already coming down steadily, and the wind was rising.