Camp, the bearers had to pass my tent.]

[Footnote 19: She was a probationer.]

[Footnote 20: The women, brandishing the meat ration on high,
literally laid siege to the official tent. The meat supplied was
miserably lean, quite unfit for consumption. I myself wouldn't have
given it to a dog. When thrown against a wall, for instance, it would
stick. Throughout the Camp it was dubbed "vrekvlys" (a man dies, an
animal "vreks"--vlys is meat). The flour given was good, for the bread
was usually excellent.]

[Footnote 21: This number soon grew to 800.]

[Footnote 22: There were three such tents about 100 yards beyond the
hospital; they were the most dilapidated tents in the whole Camp,
always open; they were occasionally blown down.]

[Footnote 23: A ration of coal was sometimes served out.]

[Footnote 24: Another old College chum.]

[Footnote 25: The Van As's received my ration (which was same as
theirs), and I took all my meals with them.]

[Footnote 26: This doctor, a most capable man, was always most
friendly to me. I had learnt to humour him, and he was ever willing
to accompany me, even at night, to desperate cases. He was, however,
almost as universally detested as he was feared, and ultimately was
knocked down by an irate husband.]