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We sailed out of the & y t.ha t, aft e r-noon , ca Ll .ed in at Lemnoe dur -Ing the
night an d at, daylight ar-r-Ived a t Sa lonica har-bor", Par-t, of t he sbff were landed
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here , be i ng on their \Jay to j oin the Cerbi lm Army . Five c a Y8 Lat e r- ve r-eached
Malla .
Here I V8S put a shore an d a moto r ambukance carried file t o Flori 61 na ho epd'taL,
where I ha d ten go od days rest. Arriving a t Vale t t a my et.re'tche r- ve e laid on the
- pie r with many. others, waiting for an ambu'lance wagon. Kind nurses ga ve u s "'000 -
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bdne e lind rrllkJ the Lat.t.er- ....a s c :~~e-;;;;'1;~':" ~i-ik~0i-fre 5h-; - - The y -ba d -no c ov e. in -
Malta and the goa t s wou ld not be t ouched be ca u se of the i r str eet ralllbling and
dir t y pa perc-eat.I ng hab i t s .
The Austrlil.lbns t old me many s t or i es of the Haltese an d their quicknes s 1n
dr a ving a knife f or eYf')ry little ecr -ep they got into. An at tempt va s mad e to bu r n
Flor iana hospf.t.eL one dar- k ni ght, bu t t he na t i ve who t r i ed i t va s caug ht and
punished .
MQl t a is ve Ll, f ortified, and t he bar-bor , t hough flmall , i s v ~ r y pretty . The
fruit vendors are ditto to those in Alen.ndria, a nd cling to the s hips like flie s
t o a ca sk.
In t he photograph /you ca n see iii. white piece of netting bancing over a bed at
t he far end of the va r dJ t ha t is Fello....s , a Gl&.s go\l lad, sh ot through the neck and
almos t coepketeIy paraUzed. He ca n lift his r ight arm. '" vee bi t an d spe ak in a
vhfeper-, but other 'than that he has a b solutely no power over him self.
The Sist e r
often r e mar ked t hat i t vcukd be be t ter ver-e he to di e . He \IRS , indeed, '" very bad
vreck of a boy and knev nob ody . My be d ve e on his r i ght, an d I got a great 6Urprise
one afternoon to hear him s ay : "Wlutt Reg iment ar-e you ,in, lad" ? I en ever--
ed hi l'll. and ke pt up a conve r-ea t don fo r quite an hour. Ri B 5tlQSe S vent, after that,