Chapter 25 RETURN OF THE NORTHERN DIVISION.

"Is not short payne well borne, that brings long ease,

And layes the soule to sleepe in quiet grace?

Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,

Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please."

Fa?rie Queene.

At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 13th of May the homeward march was commenced, our main object, of course, b