Part 150

= whilst the insignificant entrenchments (+Verschanzungen+) swept round in a semi-circle almost to (+bis zu+) the canal. ‘To sweep round,’ here +sich hin´schlängeln+, of which the pron. +sich+ must be placed immediately after the subject, and the verb?

+beritten+, adj.

= who was wounded (S. 2, N. 1) and had received a shot through the thigh.

Nom. +das lebhafte Schießen+.

= troops; were rapidly gaining ground = advanced rapidly (+schnell vor´wärtsrücken+), sep. comp. w. v. intr. Where must you place the verb? and where the separable particle?

to rush into the entrenchments, +in die Schanzwerke dringen+ (str. v.).

on — rear, +an ihrer linken Flanke+.

+und der darauf folgende un´erwartete Angriff unserer Kavallerie.+

= had not terrified them (+einen in Schrecken jagen+).

= extraordinarily.

= if one considers (+bedenken+), that our troops were exposed to a really murderous fire.

= is wounded; in, +an+, contracted with the Dat. of the def. art.

+Stabsarzt.+

was — kills = and ten or a dozen (+zehn bis zwölf+) men (= privates, +Gemeine+) are killed, but fortunately the Remington bullet (+Kugel+, f.) is but (+nur+) rarely fatal (+ist ... von tödlicher Wirkung+).

= quite full of. The wounded man, +der Verwundete+.

= returned; in high spirits, +höchst erfreut+.

to turn up, +sich wieder ein´stellen+; ‘in the morning’, here +morgen früh+.

= the; from their pursuit, +von ihrer Verfolgung+.

Literally = could the Cavalry the cannons, which they had conquered, not find again (+wiederfinden+).

= the same.

= the horsemen (+Kavalleristen+).

= details, +Einzelheiten+.

+ritt ich nach hier ab.+

= send off.

Commence a new period here, and say: ‘The distance from Kassassin to here [Ismailia] is (+beträgt+) 24 miles’.

= by no means, +keineswegs+, adv.

= Notwithstanding the late hour.

+Mannschaften.+