that he was curious as to this point. Her
demeanour at once changed, her temper was up, and we cleared off down
the street.

_September 20th._--There has been nothing to take note of during the
last few days. The Lancs. Fusiliers have occupied a good deal of my
time, their Sick Parades varying from 215 to fifty-seven. We have had
a few visits from Taubes, mostly after dark, one dropping two bombs
yesterday, and the night before we had six. The hangar seems to be
their objective. Two others we heard approaching last night but they
never came over us, they could see we were on the alert by the amount
of our fire, and some red rockets went off high in the air.

To-day should end our holiday to Imbros, but as it blows a gale we
have been notified that this has been postponed. In the afternoon
Agassiz and I had a delightful walk up a valley that was new to us. It
was a mass of huge rocks and boulders, with an attempt at a stream
which would be a raging torrent in winter. We came on a curious
geological formation, which we thought could be nothing but fossilised
trees, but how a tree came to be in the middle of a lava rock was a
puzzle. We soon found many others and saw that, however, this shape
came about, trees were not the foundation. Each consisted of a large
number of concentric circles exactly like the rings in a tree stump,
some fully 3 feet in diameter.

On our way back we had a good view of Achi Baba--of unpleasant memory.

We had two padres to tea, Beardmore being one of them. They told us
how Turkish snipers were paid--20 piastres for a lieutenant, 40 for a
captain, 80 for a lieutenant-colonel, but if a Staff officer was shot
the sniper got shot himself--not very flattering to our Staff.

If you meet a Greek on a fine day his usual greeting sounds like
"kalumaera". It was only to-day that I discovered this was the modern
pronunciation of kale hemera, and on greeting a man in the ancient
form he stood up and wondered what I meant, then said, "No, no". He
explained that all aspirates are dropped in modern Greek. They use the
word "su" for water, but they also understand the ancient word hudor.
Many of the accents also seem to have changed.

_September 22nd._--We reached our old camp at Suvla about 9 p.m.
yesterday, after a pleasant crossing, and a good meal of tea and
coffee, ham and eggs before disembarking. We watched the usual Turkish
"evening hate" from our place of safety on board, the shells bursting