of repair. Two were nothing more than box cars fitted with
stretchers. Two were a slight improvement over these, having
double-decked framework for beds, which were fitted with mattresses and
blankets. The other coach was divided into compartments. One an
operating room, which was built on modern plans, and the other
compartment was built on the style of the American Pullman, and occupied
by the Russian doctor in charge of train, one felcher or assistant
doctor (a sanitar), which is a Russian medical orderly, and two Russian
female nurses.

Our sick and wounded were being evacuated by this train from the front
to Bakaritza; there kept at the Field Hospital 337th or taken by boat to
Archangel.

I reported to General Finlayson on Sept. 16 and was given 50,000 roubles
to be delivered to Col. Joselyn, then in charge of river forces, and
informed to leave for river front to make medical arrangements for the
winter drive.

At noon Sept. 18th, with Lieut. Chappel and two platoons of infantrymen,
boarded a box car, travelled to Bakaritza, where we transferred to a
small, dirty Russian tug. The day was spent going south on Dvina River,
toward Beresnik. At the same time Lieut. Chappel with the platoons of
infantrymen boarded a small boat and proceeded up the river.

The tug on which we were had no sleeping accommodations and on account
of the number aboard we had to sleep the first night sitting erect.

The cockroaches ran around in such large numbers that when we ate it was
necessary to keep a very close watch, or one would get into the food.
The following day the infantrymen were left at Siskoe and we went on to
Beresnik. Lieut. Chappel was killed two days after leaving us.

Arrived at Beresnik, which is about one hundred and fifty miles from
Archangel, after a thirty-eight-hour trip; reported to Major Coker, and
then visited British Detention Hospital in charge of Capt. Watson, R. A.
M. C. The hospital being a five-room log building with the toilet built
adjoining the kitchen.

In this hospital there were twenty sick and wounded Americans and Royal
Scots. The beds were stretchers placed on the floor about one and
one-half feet apart. The food consisted of bully beef, M and V, hard
tack, tea and sugar, as reported by the patients stationed there. The
pneumonia patients, Spanish influenza and wounded were all fed alike.

It was here that I met Capt. Fortescue, R. A. M. C. A general
improvement in sanitation was ordered