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232 HISTORICAL RECORDS OP THECHAPTER XIV.India.1858. THE regiment having received orders to proceedto India by the overland route, embarked atCorfu on H.M.S. Perseverance ^ sailingon the 5thof September, 1858, to Alexandria, where theyarrived on the 8th of the same month. Thestrength of the regiment on board was twentynineofficers and" 785 non-commissioned officersand men.On the18th the head-quarters with the rightwing, composed of five and a half companies, weredisembarked, and were at once entrained to beconveyed to the station nearest Suez, which wasat that time about seventeen miles distant from it.Arriving at daybreak on the 19th, they founda hot meal provided, consisting principally ofIrish stew, which having been disposed of, themen were paraded to start on their ride to Suezon donkeys.