text: " Discipline of so perfect a nature must have inspired the gallant colonel with the strongest hopes of success in case of an onslaught on the forces of Ibrahim Pasha and in all probability his efforts with those of Captain Lane Hunter and Giorgio might have produced something like a skrimmage when they came near the tents of the Egyptians; but it would seem that the cudgels wielded by the Musree commanders were either not so strong or not so well applied for on the first appearance of the hostile squadron the heroes of Nezib evaporated as if by magic but not before a similar feat of legerdemain had been performed by the rabble rout of Turks and Arabs; and on looking round to inspire his followers with a speech after the manner of Thucydides the colonel discovered the last of his escort disappearing at full speed on the other side of the plain and the Europeans were left alone in their glory