The Anaconda standard., 1890-07-13
STORIES OF CAMP LIFE
Grave and Gay Incidents In Many Gil
mates.
Some Experiences That British OFF,
GERS Have Met-The West In
dian Negro as a
Sentry.

ycrsation with "A New York 1ftunr re-
porter. "and perhaps visiting scntries'
brings back as strange recollcctions, both
sad and comical, as anything else. know
no sadder thing. while on active service,
than finding man asleep on his post II
means "A field general court-martial and
death. IL seems terrible, but remember
the man is one Of the many eyes OF an
army and on him depend the safety and
the lives of his comrades. During peace
service, the man is tried 10y district court
martial and he gets AT least six months
Imprisonment with hard labor. Sentries
i'm our service go on beat for two hours
and are oil for four. In cold weather they
only do one hour, but that one hour Is
hard enough in really cold weather. such
as we had in the Shirpur lines outside
Cabul in ls79.'s0.
"Howeycr. most of my recollections are
humorous. | remember an lrishnan; lie
was a recruit and | think IL was his first
day on guard duty. One II the orders of
the post were: In case Of fire, discharge
your rifle. alarm the guard and inform
the nearest policeman TN being qucs-
toned as To his duties, lac said In "A brogue
that would have broken teacup, In
ease of fire, alar-r-r.um the guard and
is little doubt he would have done IL.
THE worst frightened man ! ever saw
was a man of the rifle brigade. Ii was in
the Ashautee war. During that night we
heard shot. The gllari aud pickets got
TO arms, and went out with an escort 10
find out what was up. We came on the
sentry; he was pale. but at his post.
"'What's the natter | asked.
al don't know, sir, but the n!ggcrs is
somewhere close by, for they were just
numbering some one, that I'll swear To,
from the awful cries heard.
"All was still. hut soon a low moan be-
gan close To- ms, gradually increasing To
an car-picrcing shrick. II was the wicrl-
est cry ever heard, and | myself felt far
from comfortable. We pecrcd into the
darkness and at last, with the help of the
lantern, discovered "A blinking lcmur on
silk-cotton troe within few yards Of us.
Our enemy was harmless
Admiral DE iorsey tells "A good tale
against himself, and the writer knows il
is true. Nearly NJ years ago the admiral
was commodore al Port Royal, Jamaica.
The sentry duty Is done 10y one Of the
West India regiments, which are entirely
recruited from negroes. These men
make capital soldiers aud obey their or
ders to the letter. The commodore thought
one day that he would walk to the point
of the spit of land on which Port Royal
holds "A precarious anchorage, more than
half the town having dropped into the
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brick building attracted his attention. IL
was really the powder magazine. As the
commodore approached, a dusky sentry
challenged.
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