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 the town; our camp was all on the north-west side.

The Medical Staff were at this time under single bell tents, and suffered severely from the sun, I never saw fellows more sunburnt in so short a time, for they had only arrived the previous day; and some of them came over to us, complaining bitterly about it, as well they might. One of the newspaper reporters mentioned this in his telegram home, but the press censor struck it out as not the case. Seeing is believing, however, and there were the single bell tents right enough. Even at home in summertime a bell tent is almost unbearable, but under a tropical sun it must have been frightful, and never ought to have been allowed for a moment. They had a few double bell tents, but the sun came through these just as severely as through the single ones.

Our camping-ground was by no means well chosen; it was down in a hollow to begin with, and therefore damp. The sand, so close to the sea as we were, and on so low a level, is full of salt, and in the mornings the floor of the tent was always quite wet. The first night we hung our clothes up in the tent, and the next morning they were all wet through from the moisture