Brigade--Taylor's Hollow--Beach fatigues--Soldiers as sailors--News
--Mails from Australia--Diversions--The naturalist--The beauties of
land, sea, and sky. =Page 102.=

CHAPTER IX.

GALLIPOLI (_continued_).

Move to Happy Valley--Visit of Lord Kitchener--Unsettled weather
--Humanity--A proposed stunt--The "close season for Turkey"--The
blizzard and its dire consequences--Increased enemy gun fire--The
arrival of the German heavies--Russell's Top--Three tiers of tunnels
--Death of the three majors--News of the evacuation--The main body
leaves the Peninsula--The Die-hards--Work of the Machine Gun Section
--The last man. =Page 120.=

CHAPTER X.

LEMNOS ISLAND.

Landing in the Bay--A sick battalion--Sarpi camp--The arrival of the
beer--Resting, recuperating, and refitting--Z Valley camp--Members
selected for distinction--Touring Lemnos--General description of the
island--The inhabitants--Kastro--Primitive agriculture--Mt. Therma--
Crowded shipping--The arrival of the billies--Christmas Day--A
conspiracy--The concert--The New Year--Leaving for Egypt. =Page 137.=

CHAPTER XI.

BACK TO EGYPT.

Alexandria--Arrival at Tel-el-Kebir--The transport rejoins--A deal
in tents--Kitchen trouble--A camp for two divisions--The battle of
1882--Short rations--Inspection by Sir Archibald Murray--Leave to
Cairo--The postal service--Training for savage warfare--Reinforcements
--General Paton--Transfers to the Camel Corps--Rumours of a Turkish
advance--Move to the Sinai Peninsula--The desert--Road and pipe line
--Camels--Ferry Post--The defences of the Suez Canal--Passing shipping
--Lumping and navvying--Secret service agents--Dangers to shipping in
the Canal--Ismailia--Gambling--Cerebro-spinal meningitis--A visit from
the High Commissioner in Egypt. =Page 148.=

CHAPTER XII.

PREPARING FOR FRANCE.

Three new divisions--Another 60,000 Australians--Transfers to new
units--Changes in establishments--Promotions--Talk of the Western
Front--Undesirables--Unfits--The khamsin--Assembling at Moascar--
Final preparations--Train to Alexandria--The "Themistocles"--The
menace of submarines--Through the Mediterranean--Malta--Approaching
Marseilles--Entering the harbour--The end of the first phase. =Page 162.=

APPENDICES.