`` they are certainly not drunk , '' temeraire said , `` for they have got off three volleys : and it is no joke to reload a gun even when one is sober ; it was the greatest difficulty for our artillery company to manage it , with seven men to a cannon , so it must be even more trouble for one person with a musket , it seems to me ; and i do wish i knew who they were - `` `` it is the new south wales corps , '' lieutenant forthing said , panting ; he had dashed up the hill .