With the Serbs in Macedonia

104 WITH THE SERBS IN MACEDONIA
Suffering again, on a further heart-breaking
six-days' march through roadless swamps to
Valona by way of Durazzo. On that last march
— ^the straw which ought to and yet somehow
did not break the camel's back— it is some
comfort to know that the British, French, and
Italian Missions did splendid work for these
helpless, hungry, half-naked men.
Somehow or other they reached Valona, after
leaving more dead by the way, many dying as a
result of eating too much after their long period
of starvation and exhaustion—an indomitable
band who had sacrificed all to the knowledge
that so long as they existed as an army the
liberation and union of the whole Serbian race
was still a dream that might some day come
true. And from Valona, as soon as possible,
they were shipped to Corfu by the Italians,
fortunately, in spite of attacks by submarines,
without the loss of a single Serb at sea.
The condition in which they reached Corfu
can only be described as one of utter exhaustion.
Never before had so many and such pitiful
wrecks of men been seen. One cannot think of
them without a lump in the throat, and one can
only regret that after all their terrible sufferings
they should have had at first some considerable
hardships still to bear even when they reached
Corfu. The organization was not complete, and