With the Serbs in Macedonia

70 WITH THE SERBS IN MACEDONIA
petrol ignited, and his comrades had the horrible
experience of watching without being able to
get down to him. And then another accident
happened. The officer in charge missed his
footing in the darkness, and fell over the other
side and injured himself very severely.
The chief excitement during our stay at
Sorovich was the news of the fall of Monastir.
We got it seven times. Another very startling
occurrence was that one of our colleagues shot
a wild goose ; at least, he said it was a wild
But undoubtedly the most important
goose.
event of all was that our workshops officer
made us an oVen for the officers' mess.
We had a thunderstorm or two, and one sand
storm. The latter was most unpleasant. A
chilly wind, heavily laden with sand, blew
strenuously all day long. Everything was
sandy — tents, food, clothes, hair, and it even
worked its way into the box that held our
gramophone records.
One evening some of us went out for a stroll
across the hills to a ridge beside the lake. It
was a very quaint and out-of-the-way little
place, mainly inhabited by
arrival created a commotion.
Turks, and our
The mayor came
up and shook hands, and
infant population crowded
all the
round.
male and
We discovered
that, as usual, one of the natives had