At the margins of each squat natives by the hundred, saddlesoaping tack

[meliss]

"Alexander’s wedding has sent the town into hysteria. ... At the river’s edge, horses line up flank-to-flank, being lathered and scrubbed by their grooms. The plain must hold a thousand camps. At the margins of each squat natives by the hundred, saddlesoaping tack and wax-buffing bridles and brightwork."
(The Afghan Campaign by Steven Pressfield.)

Hi. The word order in the last sentence is not direct: predicate (squat), then subject (natives). Is it correct?

 

[emsr2d2]

This construction simply uses the reversal of the usual word order. We'd expect to see "At the margins of each, natives squat by the hundred". The author opted for the more stylised version that means the same thing.