him up in a cloth or blanket or what first came to hand, as the custom was, and had him away to the sands, that warm repository of all his fellows.We had dug the hole and was just tumbling him in, when, not liking his usage, he fell a grumbling; upon which we immediately opened the wrapper and, giving him air, he revived; upon this, he was lugged back to the hospital and he lived four and twenty hours after, when being sure of him we re-conveyed him to the former apartment and heard no more of him.

Defoe's Late Famous Siege is the 13th of which rather less is known about that its elder brother the Great Siege of Gibraltar. Richard Kane was Governor of Gibraltar from October1720 to February 1727. The cease- fire was in June 1727 so one can safely say that although he prepared the Rock well for the conflict he actually more or less missed all the action. After which the Colonel mentioned in the passage - Jasper Clayton - took over. The burial 'sands' were in the area of what would become the Alameda Parade.

Brigadier General Richard Kane (Unknown )

How we Buried our Dead - Part 2One of our private men had been so frugal as to muster twenty shillings- and he was the only one of the deceased, of that degree, who had the favour of a coffin allowed him.He begged hard for it with his dying breath and, the will of the defunct being fulfilled for seventeen and