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when we started, but such a large body of men might have been visible
to the enemy at some distance, and we spread out into a long line. All
went well, but at several points to which we were directed as our
destination we were always told the wounded were further on, and we
began to think we were never to find them. We were getting very near
the Turks' lines, and Thomson and I had various deliberations about
the advisability of going further, but I was always determined to go
on. At last we got a guide, but his idea of the whereabouts of the
wounded was most hazy; all he knew was that they were collected in a
nullah somewhere not far off. We came on a nullah at last and walked
along its high steep banks, calling if anyone was at the bottom, in a
voice not too loud owing to our proximity to the Turks. Just as we
found them the fighting on our immediate right became very violent,
the artillery and rifle fire being a perfect roar. Star shells were
thrown over us, and we hid in the nullah while we were loading the
stretchers and raising them to the top of the bank. Each stretcher
squad made off at its hardest as soon as its patient was passed up.
Thomson and I saw them all off, then had to cross an open piece of
ground where three bullets were fired among our feet evidently by a
sniper who was no distance away. This made us hurry still more, then
the nullah had to be crossed to the south side. I stood in the middle
of it, half-way to the knees in water and assisted ten stretchers
across. Things all the time got hotter and hotter, the various
batteries all belching forth at their hardest, star shells and rockets
got still more numerous, and a searchlight from the Dardanelles side
of Achi Baba swept the whole valley as far as our camp on W. Beach. It
was a terrifying night and I was very happy to get all the men landed
in camp at 10.15 safe and sound. Most of them enjoyed the little bit
of sport, but Thomson overheard one of them remarking that although
Lieut. Davidson didn't seem to know what fear was he had no business
to bring them there. The bearers were under me and I was responsible,
and I admit the charge was just; we had gone too far at such a time.

_May 3rd._--Only occasional firing to-day. I went out with Kellas and
Agassiz to show them the way to a point fixed on as a dressing
station. After much wandering about admiring the flora of Gallipoli
with Kellas we chose a spot which is unfortunately near one of ou