their assailants in a man to man, hand to hand struggle. Then came into play the bayonet and the sweeping sabre, decimating the savages. Our ranks were thinned too. Gilmaire and Bommont, two brave officers, both fell. Eight other corpses were stretched on the little flat, and twenty more were wounded. Danger aggrandizes all men. Sergeant Lajus seeing some chasseurs in a difficult pass, sprang forward, rescued them, fell wounded twice, and owed his life to the trumpeter Danot, whose bayonet killed three Kabyles at his feet. Captains Esmieu, Olagnier, and Choppin, were on every spot of danger; and chiefs and soldiers, confident in their own prowess, avenged their losses in the blood of the enemy. Suddenly, behind the counterfort of the mountain, the trumpet sounding the charge, and repeating the war march of the battalion, was heard. This

This trumpeter remained with the Orleans chasseurs. On the 4th of December, 1851, on the day of the insurrection, General Canrobert had his old battalion under his command. He sought out Danot, and wishing to get him a decoration, took him to trumpet his orders. Having reached the Boulevard Poissonnière, he stood by the horse of the General at the moment when the fusillade was the sharpest; and this fine soldier, who had escaped all the dangers of Africa, fell struck by a French ball at the foot of his chief, two steps from the house where his family lived.

announced the arrival of the company of Lieutenant Bonnet, supported by Lieutenant-Colonel Claperède's regiment of the line. The lieutenant formed his judgment of the ground at a glance, and without waiting for orders, took the Kabyles, who thought he was followed by the whole French force, in flank. Upon this they hesitated; and Canrobert seeing their indecision, a company took charge of the dead and the wounded on the flat, whilst the rest assuming the offensive, charged with the bayonet, broke and routed the enemy, and rejoined the reinforcement half way down the descent. Then all returned to take up the dead and the wounded; and on falling back upon the camp, a last offensive movement made by Captain Esmieu de Cargouet terminated the combat.

At night-fall the advanced posts saw the Kabyles kindle a great fire at their stockade, on a spot well protected from our balls. The ruddy flames of the pines threw a strong light over the sinister features of the surrounding savages, and the tam tam was beaten furiously enough to make one's head spin round with the noise. Our soldiers looked on for a time without understanding what this meant. The ferocious joy of the enemy was, however, presently explained. The bodies of our

unfortunate comrades, two of whom had been carried off in the melée, were brought forward; and with shouts and shrieks, having been first hideously profaned and outrageously mutilated, were thrown into the fire. As the human flesh burns slowly, reddening only at first, the heads alone took fire, and from the eyes jets of inflamed gas shot out. This horrid spectacle filled the soldiers with fury; and they pledged themselves to each other to give in future no quarter to such monsters. And may it please you, good philanthropists, who in soft easy chairs, by the corners of good fires, well sheltered from cold rain and danger, discourse so eloquently about humanity— they were right. The soldier willingly stakes. his life; he knows that he wears the livery of death, which in the day of repose is his honour and his pride; but the idea of mutilation revolts and enrages him beyond bounds.

Whilst our Orleansville comrades were thus recounting their adventures, the two chiefs had terminated their conference, and had agreed upon an expedition for that very night. On arriving at the camp the necessary orders were issued; but just as we were about to march, an Arab courier brought despatches to the General, informing him that a powerful Kabyle tribe,

the Beni-hidja, inhabiting the neighbourhood of Tenes, had been instigated by its Caid, MohamedBen-hini, a fanatic possessing great influence, to attack a little camp which had been established in a valley near the city. The few Orleans chasseurs of the 5th battalion, who guarded the encampment had been obliged to retreat before an enemy twenty times their number, into a block-house, whence they could keep up a fire on the Kabyles, but could not prevent the pillage of the camp. The little daughter of a canteeneer had been seized by these barbarians, torn to pieces, and her body, bit by bit, thrown against the block-house. The road also connecting Tenes and Orleansville was occupied by the enemy, and it was possible that the insurrection might spread to the west, from Beni-hidja to the Beni-Menacers, and to Mitidja itself, if prompt measures were not taken to suppress it. Colonel St. Arnaud, informing General Bourjolly of these events, announced his intention to march immediately to Tenes, rendering it impossible to carry out the expedition that had been agreed upon for the night. Counter-orders were thereupon given, and the General modified his plan of operations. We were obliged to confine ourselves to maintaining order among the tribes of the Darha, comprised in the subdivision of Mostaganem.

A week afterwards, our column was still at the same bivouac, on the banks of the Oued Khamis, awaiting, in this stony tract-sheltered by magnificent trees, which we felled, according as we needed them, for firing-the termination of the great rains, which are called torrential, from always falling in torrents. But clouds still darkened the sky, and the waters of the Oued Khamis, turbulent, swollen, and dirty, rolled on in increasing volume daily. Our provisions, too, were beginning to diminish, and there was a fear that the great floods, the river having widely overflowed its banks, might prevent the convoy, which was bringing us supplies, from reaching us. Under these circumstances the General thought it would not be prudent to delay passing the river any longer; and a cavalry officer, mounted on one of the best horses of the column, was commissioned to find out the best place for a passage. A small escort was to accompany him, to protect him from straggling marauders, or to rescue him from the water in case of accident, for the enterprise had some danger in it. Four times the poor horse swam the torrent, and four times had to breast its way back, without finding a favourable ford. Everywhere there were large stones, enormous holes, and difficulties insurmountable by infantry. As the officer