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les, belts and rolled overcoats, we went down the companion-way into the waiting surf-boats. Again and again these boats, roped together a

the Naval Division, who was casting o

flies an' sand-noth

The glare of sunlight on the yellow sand hurt the eyes. The deadly silence of the place was oppressive-esp

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der our armpits. We trudged to our camping-place along the shore. One or two Greek natives followed us about with me

but the inside was yellow with pink and crim

ual eating of melons to allay the blistering thirst helped the disease. Many men slept close to the latrines, too weak to crawl to

e stars burned white-hot

rlooking the bay. We could see the green-and-red electric lights

d a hundred-and-one articles necessary to the work of the Medical Corps in the field: all this had to be man-handled through the sand up to our camp about a mile away. And the sun blazed, and the flies pestered and stung and buzzed and fought with each oth

ily sick. We wanted to g

moping here: working in the blazing heat, and crawling to the latrines in the chilly nig

hey sat all day near our camp selling melons, tomatoes, ve

and very salt. Here were tiny shoals of tiny fish. The water was clear and glassy. There were pinky sea

ise the deadly silence held. There were red-winged grasshoppers and great

r-tank boats, about a mile and a half d

eek-Armenians, Turks and Ethiopians, Egyptians and half-breeds of all kinds from Malta

sh galleon days. We went suddenly back to a savage life. We went down to bathe stark naked, with the sunset glowing orange on our sunburnt limbs. Here it was that Hawk p

last we were on the move. We worked with a will now. The great day would soon dawn. Some of us would get "put

out at night towards the great