text:  Thus passed before me the famous Croatian companies--the Pandours together forming the finest outpost troops of the army--the free companies of the Tyrol the first marksmen of the empire a fine athletic race with the eagle's feather in their broad hats and the sinewy step of the mountaineer--the lancers of the Bannat first-rate videttes an Albanian division which had taken service with Austria on the close of the war; and independently of all name and order a cloud of wild cavalry Turk Christian and barbarian who followed the campaign for its chances and galloped sported and charged each other like the Arabs of the desert