first make his way?"

"He first entered the force raised by Sir Andrew Gray, who crossed
from Leith to Holland, and then uniting with a body of English
troops under Sir Horace Vere marched to join the troops of the
Elector Palatine. It was a work of danger and difficulty for so
small a body of men to march through Germany, and Spinola with a
powerful force tried to intercept them. They managed, however, to
avoid him, and reached their destination in safety.

"Vere's force consisted of 2200 men, and when he and Sir Andrew
Gray joined the Margrave of Anspach the latter had but 4000 horse
and 4000 foot with him. There was a good deal of fighting, and
Hepburn so distinguished himself that although then but twenty
years old he obtained command of a company of pikemen in Sir Andrew
Gray's band, and this company was specially selected as a bodyguard
for the king.

"There was one Scotchman in the band who vied even with Hepburn in
the gallantry of his deeds. He was the son of a burgess of Stirling
named Edmund, and on one occasion, laying aside his armour, he swam
the Danube at night in front of the Austrian lines, and penetrated
to the very heart of the Imperial camp. There he managed to enter
the tent of the Imperialist general, the Count de Bucquoi, gagged
and bound him, carried him to the river, swam across with him and
presented him as a prisoner to the Prince of Orange, under whose
command he was then serving.

"It was well for Hepburn that at the battle of Prague he was guarding
the king, or he also might have fallen among the hosts who died