CHAPTER VIII.

THE FIASCOS OF PELISCHAT AND LOVTCHA.

A Circassian and a Pig--A Call on Olivier Pain--His Photographs surprise me--A View of Sydney Harbour in Plevna--The Story of a French Journalist--A Lonely Death in the Soudan--"The Butter-making Prince"--Bulgarian Fleas--The Expedition to Poradim--Going to the Front--An Ambulance at Work--Capture of Russian Guns--A Diabolical Circassian--Attack on a Redoubt--A General Retreat--Wounded Men left in the Redoubt--I help them to escape--An Exciting Moment--My Horse has to carry Double--Death takes one of the Riders--Battle of Pelischat--The March to Lovtcha--A Scrimmage in a Wheat-field--Sleeping in a Wheat-stook--Weinberger and I are apprehensive--A Delightful Surprise--Drawing a Covert--Lovtcha in the Distance--A Council of War--An Appalling Sight--Our Mutilated Comrades--The Sergeant and his Cigarette--A Night Alarm--Ammunition Boxes blow up--A Disastrous Explosion--Lauri and Drew Gay 189