CHAPTER IV.

IN TURKEY AND THE CRIMEA.

Enchanting Scene--Loss of Baggage-horses--Sir George Brown’s Order--Identification of Lost Horses--Dealings with the Peasantry--Foraging--Cholera in Bulgaria--Disagreeable Mistake--Dr. Shegog--Devotion to his Work and Sudden Death--Death of an Officer--Embarkation at Varna--The Black Sea Fleet--Kind Soldiers--Our first Scare in the Crimea--Kindness of Lord Raglan--An Outlying Picquet--Story of a Connaught Ranger--Capture of Balaclava--A Serious Mistake 65