they arrived past midnight and were marched aboard the Burmah, a
British transport of seven thousand tons burden. At two a. m. they were
given a meal of tea, bread, condensed milk, boiled potatoes and a most
horrible sausage and told to turn in. As their bunks were hold hamocks,
quite a few turned out.

About daylight the thousand-mile journey down the St. Lawrence began.
When they reached the ocean they joined a convoy of a dozen ships,
screened in a cold mist and rocked by a choppy sea. Then began the ocean
voyage of twelve days, through fog and rain and over a rough, gray sea.
At night it was early to bed, because lights were not allowed.

The fare shows the ship's registry, and for breakfast, dinner and supper
was the same--tea, oatmeal, mutton, marmalade, condensed milk, cheese,
oleomargarin, bread and boiled potatoes. The ship was redolent with
mutton. Those whose stomachs were upset by a first voyage, more than
sixty per cent, declared they could never again look a sheep in the face
and live through it. Several gave their sheep skin coats away, believing
they added to the prevailing odor.

Every day of the voyage they marched in the morning and held a song
service in the afternoon, followed by an address by some diplomatic
preacher or professor, who, being on a British transport, considered it
an opportune time to tell the captain and crew what the Yanks intended
doing and why the soldiers of all the other allied nations had failed in
the war.

When they were off the Irish coast a half-dozen British destroyers
steamed out of the fog and met them and, like greyhounds at full speed,
chased one another in great circles around the more slowly moving
convoy.

At Liverpool they marched ashore singing, "The Yanks are Coming" and
never marched again. Then they traveled by train to London and a day or
two later to Southampton, then by channel steamer to Havre, then by
train to Paris, where most of the men were assigned to service in
France.

Those going to Italy, some thirty-five, including Saylor and Cornwall,
several days later traveled by train through Southwestern France to
Modane, then by way of Turin to Bologna.

There they made settlement of their incidental expense accounts, which
did not include transportation charges; and though they traveled
together and stopped at the same hotels, Saylor rendered an account for
two hundred and twenty-five dollars and Cornwall one for eighty-three
dollars.

In Bolog