36 THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN. CHAP, bridges. Captain Carmichael observed, it is true, • and duly reported to Pennefather, that large flocks of sheep had been newly driven into the pastures near the Inkerman ruins ; but this, at the time, was a circumstance which men knew not how to interpret * 11. Although Prince Mentschikoff s general direc- tions for the morrow had been issued so early as 5 o'clock in the afternoon of the Saturday, no spy nor deserter found means to steal into camp with the news of the intended attack ; and the night passed away without any report from the out- posts which awakened attention in camp.-}- ■fhe early In the English service, an officer of the Quarter- Uie'sth^o'f master-General's Department was accustomed to November in • •■ ,i /> ^i i t ■ • the English visit the camps 01 the several divisions every ^^' morning before break of day, in order to be able to apprise Headquarters of any observed change in the attitude or apparent purposes of the enemy. Captain Ewart, the able officer charged Avith this task on the morning of the 5th of November, was in his saddle soon after 4 o'clock. After visiting o
- Our present knowledge of the enemy's j)lans maj- warrant
a surmisi^ that the flocks were driven into their new i)astnre.s with a view to the supply of the Keld-army when estahlishcd and entrenched (as Prince Mentscliikoff liojied it would be) on the downs of the Chersonese. + We sliall hear, post, p. 95, of the ' nnnhling ' heard at the outposts and duly reported hy Captain Sargent of the 9.5th, and by Morgan of the same regiment ; but the tidings did not ' awaken attention in camp.'
