With a whoop and halloo, they cheered the travellers as they rode by, but at some distance from, the encampment.

The tenants of the encampment, thus strangely but fortunately thrown together, having first seen that everything was quiet, took their severally assigned places, and laid themselves down for repose.

The pedler contenting himself with guessing that "them 'ere chaps did not make no great deal by that speculation.".