text:  The sergeant-majors called the roll of their troops and companies; whilst the men leaning upon their muskets or sitting at ease in their saddles munched fragments of the brown ration bread smoked the cigarette or received from the hands of the tawny-visaged sutlers and _cantinieras_ who walked up and down the ranks an antidote to the effects of the cool morning air in the shape of a glass of _aguardiente_