text:  After an hour's gallop through rocks rivulets and brambles which seemed without end and totally uninhabited except by an occasional patrol of the irregulars of the Austrian and Prussian forces--barbarians as savage-looking as ever were Goth or Hun and capital substitutes for the wolves and wild-boars which they had ejected for the time--a sudden opening of the forest brought us within view of the immense camp of the combined armies