I woke up after dozing for some minutes, and taking up my old stand
near the companion-way again took my star observation. But this time
the star had swept right round and was the other side of the mast. We
had changed our course from south-west to north. Just then Hawk came
up the companion-way, no doubt from a bottle- hunt down below.

"It's--Salonika!" said he.

"We've turned almost due north in the last quarter of an hour."

"I know it,--been down to the stokers' bunks--it's Salonika--another
new landing."

"They keep the Xth for making new landings."

And so to the Graeco-Serbian frontier and a fresh series of
adventures, including sickness, life in an Egyptian hospital--and then
England.




CHAPTER XXVIII


LOOKING BACK


The queer thing is, that when I look back upon that "Great Failure" it