Elliot’s Reviews > Monro, His Expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment called Mac-Keys > Status Update

Almost done. This book takes a lot of focus to read.

Here I did remarke as wonderfull, that in the very moment when our ship did breake on ground, there was a Sergeants Wife a shipboard, who without the helpe of any woman was delivered of a Boy, which all the time of the tempest she carefully did preserve, and being come ashore, the next day, she marched neere foure English mile, with that in her Armes, which was in her Belly the night before...[!] (131)

A 17th century infantryman's view on cavalry:

"This I dare presume to be all true, out of my little experience, and...all the time I have served where I have heard one fault imputed to a body of foote, I could instance ten defects in our Horsemens service: for the worst sort of them being too much given to plowndring, makes them neglect their duties, which fault is also too Common amongst many of their Leaders" (35)