two o'clock
Two hours later a couple of serviceable horses had been bought ; with saddles , bridles , holsters , and valises . In the last named were packed necessaries for the journey , and each provided himself with a brace of double-barrelled pistols . The rest of their effects were packed in the trunks they had bought at Jersey , and were handed over to a Portuguese firm of carriers , to be sent up to the regiment . At two o'clock they mounted and rode to Sobral . The next day they rode to Santarem , and on the following evening to Abrantes . They here learned that their corps was in camp , with two other Portuguese regiments , four miles higher up the river . As it was dark when they arrived at Abrantes , they agreed to sleep there and go on the next morning ; as Terence wished to report himself to General Hill , to whose division the regiment was attached , until operations should commence in the spring .