356 KESOURCES OBTAINED FKOM CHAP, XXIII. His con- tinucJ exertious. itelr result. of tiausport, Airey afterwards despatched the officers of his department in all directions to bring in supplies. Sending Captain Sankey to Tuzla and Sak, he thence got 105 waggons. Sending Captain Hamilton to Bujuk Aktash, to Beshi Aktash, to Tenish, and Sak, he got 67 camels, 253 horses, 45 cartloads of poultry, barley, and other supplies, with more than a thousand head of cattle and sheep.* At a later date, and when the army was moving, he took 25 waggons from a village near the line of march. One day, moreover, it happened that General Airey sent his aide-de-camp ISTolan to explore for water, and, though he was without a cavalry escort, Nolan boldly cut in upon a convoy of 80 government waggons laden with flour, and seized the whole of it. In all, some 350 waggons were obtained, with their teams and their Tartar drivers. ' of the Kussians jump up from his saddle as though he was ' liit, . . . and forthwith the wliole jjarty scamiered away ' over the j)lain. The drivers then came running to us, and ' kneeling down and embracing our knees. I made them yoke ' their bullocks again, and took the train back, and handed ' them over to General Airey. On our way back we passed Sir ' George Brown.' "We saw that (suitposing the Britannia boat to liave been the first to touch the beach) Colonel I.ysons was the first English soldier who landed in the Crimea, and the above incident enabled liim also to say not only that the first shot fired by our soldiery was fired under his orders, but that the first piize taken from the enemy was taken by him — was taken by him in derogation of the standstill commands which had been given liim by Sir George Brown, but in obedience to the boldly-ventured order by which General Airey unleashed him. — Note to 4ih Edition.
- In some, but not all of these expeditions, Sankey and
Hamilton had cavalry escorts.
