communication is on the "Aragon," a magnificent
ship lying in Lemnos harbour. The "Aragon" is notorious for its number
of monocles. Up to now any officer has been allowed to go on board to
any meal on payment, but evidently that privilege is about to be
stopped. If anyone went in his grimy, war-worn garments, and many now
have nothing else, he was glowered at by these toffs, as if he had no
right to be there. Besides, many officers who were not sick enough to
enter a hospital, but too ill to carry on at the Front, were sent
there for a rest. These too were attacked by these fellows and told
that if they were ill they should be on a hospital ship or if not ill
they ought to be at the Front. These men have no intention themselves
of going nearer the Front, they are all fat and sleek and live on the
fat of the land, are faultlessly dressed, and strut about with their
monocles, looking with contempt on all the poor devils who are doing
the dirty work. Every one is now up in arms against them.

In the evening the CO., Kellas, and I climbed a rocky hill of about
800 feet, lying to the east. The view of the harbour with over 100 big
ships, and about as many small craft was very fine in its setting of
rugged hills. We watched the sun go down in all his glory on the
distant side of the island.

_July 27th._--Still in Lemnos. There has been nothing doing to-day. We
lie about camp a good deal where we have an abundance of light
literature, sheltering under two large, double-lined Indian tents we
were lucky enough to secure the day after our arrival. Yesterday we
had a mail, which of course had to go to Gallipoli first, and was
delayed at least a week by this short double journey.

At 9 a.m. Fiddes and I took the men for a route march through the
village of Romano and up a hill beyond.

_July 28th._--Another slow day. I amused myself in the morning with a
fine specimen of a tarantula which I caught crawling up a tent. I had
seen three others in Gallipoli but this was the finest of all. Kellas
and I had a praying mantis in a large tin box with gauze as a lid so
that we might watch him at his devotions. The mantis reminds one of a
small, green monkey, the fore pair of legs being well developed and
used in prehension. A large number of the insects we have are of the
grasshopper tribe with well-developed hind-legs. The tarantula was put
beside the mantis and he pounced on him like a cat at a mouse, seized
him round the middle a