fun of them. One carried off a tin of jam in great glee.
They stopped at my dugout and I could not get rid of them till I gave
each a chunk of Turkish delight, which pleased them immensely. I had
to get rid of two sailors the same way yesterday, giving each a
Turkish nose cap. Every Turkish curio is valued in the Navy, extensive
barter being carried on between them and men ashore, whisky and all
sorts of goods being received by us.

10 p.m.--I have been watching a big green frog which came jumping
through our tents at a great speed, as if bound on business. He went
straight to the cook's tent and crept under the flap. Plainly he had
been there before. Flies are everywhere by the million, but he knew
where they were particularly plentiful. Half an hour ago I saw a
brilliant speck of light on a piece of heath, which I thought was too
bright to be the reflection of the moon from some bright object. I
found it came from an insect nearly one inch long, jointed like a
lobster, the glow coming from the last two joints on the under side.
Even when held close to the flame of a candle the apple-green glow was
still very bright.

_June 25th._--Walked to Aberdeen Gully, but nothing worth noting
to-day.

_June 26th._--Like yesterday an uneventful day--unless a visit from a
Taube is worth noting, and a thunderstorm over in Imbros. The sky has
been more or less cloudy, which is certainly unusual, while yesterday
in The Gully the heat was perhaps more trying than I ever felt it.

All preparations are ready for a very big day on Monday (28th) when
the Turks on our left are all to be blown sky high; such a bombardment
as Flanders has never seen the like of. So says General de Lisle who
has been in France from the beginning of the war until the other day,
when he became our Divisional-General.

_June 27th._--I went to Aberdeen Gully to-day with Kellas, Agassiz,
and Morris. We wondered if we could extend our accommodation for
wounded in anticipation of to-morrow's fight. We did nothing in that
direction, but Kellas getting a message to attend a meeting at Brigade
H.Q. as we went up The Gully, he brought up word that General de Lisle
wished us to open another dressing station, as far as I could make
out, in the slight dip immediately in front of our first firing line
to which we are expected to creep out, and dig ourselves in, and wait
for to-morrow's advance. I know the ground, and saw his sketch of the
site, and pronounced it