earing. At one time in the Atlantic
we were between fifty and sixty minutes behind G.M.T.

There was a great fuss last night over the supposed discovery of six
cases of measles in our unit. This morning a Medical Board sat and
pronounced all the cases to be merely erythematous rashes following
vaccination four days ago, and consequently the quarantine instituted
last night has been relaxed, but only in a modified form, so as to let
the guilty party down gently. As a result of all this unnecessary fuss
the two field ambulances on board were nearly split into two camps.

_March 29th._--Another quiet day and a calm sea.

Three interpreters joined our boat at Malta, they leaving home two
days after us by a P. & O. boat. These men have a thorough knowledge
of Turkish, Greek, and French.

The heat of the sun has been intense to-day, and a number of us were
glad to don our helmets. These are not altogether a success, they are
too heavy.

We had a short lecture on "Turkey" by one of the interpreters, when he
spoke about the roads, which seem to be few, woods still fewer, water
supply and some other points likely to be of practical interest to us
shortly. Rains usually cease in the end of March, and, except for an
occasional shower, the heat of summer lasts till the middle of
September, the temperature being just under 100 deg. F.

_March 30th._--Lying in the harbour of Alexandria, where we arrived
about 3 p.m. The day has been perfect, the temperature moderate till
we came near land when the sun simply scorched us. At sea there is
always a breeze, but as we now lie at anchor in the middle of the
harbour the air is absolutely still and oppressive. We seemed to
describe the letter "S" as we approached from the sea, this course
being likely due to sand bars. To one who has never been in the East
before the sight of this town with its huge commercial buildings, its
great palm trees which are visible not far from the water's edge, and
a harbour full of great liners, and looking big enough to hold all the
shipping of the world, is a great education. Three ships have entered
since we came in, one being the "Kingstonia," one of our divisional
transports, another full of French troops. We were, of course,
surrounded by boats trying to do a little honest trade with us, but
our men were strictly forbidden to purchase anything from them owing
to the risk of infection.

These boats were manned principally by Arabs in their pecul