There is no battery there, and the tents can only have been pitched there because there was some way down to the water.
It cannot be more than half a mile away, for it was not more than a mile from Fort Samos." "Can't I go with you ?" the midshipman said.

"I will be as quiet as a cat; and, if you find it is a good path, and come up to fetch me down, you see there will be a treble risk of being seen." "Very well," James agreed.

"Only mind, if you set a stone rolling, or break a twig, it will cost us both our lives, to say nothing of the failure of our expedition." "I will be as quiet as a mouse.

You see if I ain't," the midshipman said confidently; "and I will try not to think, even once, of the water below there, so as not to hurry." Together they crept cautiously along the edge of the ridge, until they came to a clump of some fifteen tents.

As they approached they could see, by the light of the fires, that the encampment was one of Canadian troops.
James had not intended to move forward until all were asleep, but the men were all chatting round the fires, and it did not seem to him that a sentry had, as yet, been placed on the edge of the descent.