preferred taking a cheerful glass together, which would at once relieve them from such assaults, enliven that gloom which brooded over their minds, transport them in imagination to Glasgow[9], to see how the shuttle was flying, and afterwards to close the scene with their favourite song, "Glasgow on the banks of the river Clyde." [6] I would here remark, that sleeping in the day is very dangerous in that country, for I have often known men lying down upon their cots to take a nap in perfect health, that would rise in the rage of a fever, and were obliged to be taken to the hospital. [7] Those who had not Bibles of their own, had access to the Company's Bibles, which were served out to us before embarking at Portsmouth. [8] The _Sammy Hawk_ is a kind of brown bird that frequently flies about the barracks, to pick up any thing that it can find for its subsistence; and it has a kind of religious homage paid to it by some of the poor, ignorant natives. The meaning this nickname was intended to convey was, that those to whom it was applied were men of sober habits, who had not the heart to spend their money in the same jovial manner as their thoughtless comrades, who were determined, therefore, if they saved their money, that it should not be with both ease and honour. [9] A great proportion of the regiment had been enlisted in that city, and its neighbourhood.