premise: Someone said that while we were standing here and arguing about it , the British would be gone ; but Cousin Simmons said he had watched them marching west early in the morning , and moving at a much brisker pace it had still taken half an hour for their column to pass , what with the narrowness of the road and their <mask> and ammunition carts .
hypothesis: the proper context for <mask> here should be cases used to carry belongings when traveling