ng them appeared the tall form of their leader, he and his horse
uninjured. Then came larger parties, followed again by single horsemen
and men on foot, still exposed to the fire from the causeway. Presently
a number of Cossacks came galloping after the fugitives, spearing some
and taking others prisoners; but just then the Russian guns on the
Causeway Ridge again opened, and the Cossacks were compelled to abandon
the pursuit, many of those whom they had surrounded making their escape.
The naval officers now rode back to the slope at the foot of the
Chersonese, on which considerable groups had assembled, and towards
which the gallant men who had come out from amid that valley of death
were now collecting. The officers were speaking eagerly together;
surgeons who had hurried down were attending to the wounded; several
parties were on their way into the valley to endeavour to bring in those
who were on the ground still, unable to move.

Among the last to come in was an officer on a weary horse, which could
scarcely drag itself up the valley; numerous persons went forward to
meet him. "That is Lord George Paget," said one of the naval officers.
He had, with Colonel Douglas, led out the remnant of the 4th Light
Dragoons and a portion of the 11th Hussars; not only had the brigade,
though separated into several bands, broken through the guns, but,
driving the Russian horsemen before them, and finally breaking through
all opposition, had made their way again up the valley, passing directly
in front of a large body of Russian Lancers, and once more, under a fire
of shot and shell, they returned to the foot of the Chersonese. The
naval officers could not, naturally, tear themselves from the scene.
For some time stragglers and riderless chargers were coming in, and then
there was the numbering of horses, and afterwards the melancholy
roll-call. Of the gallant brigade, which half an hour before had
numbered nearly 700 horsemen, not 200 now remained fit for duty. A
hundred and thirteen men had been killed, 134 wounded; while close upon
500 horses were killed or rendered unfit for service.

Now came the sad work of searching for the slain who could be reached
and brought in for burial; but numbers still lay where the fire of the
Russian batteries commanded the ground, as they could not be interred
till a cessation of arms was agreed on for the purpose. Many a gallant
trooper hurried forward notwithstanding to search for his