Alexander diary, 1917-1918 / Roy Alexander - Page 60
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I took one sip of the awful sweet soup (a favourite German dish) and then rushed away to be violently ill. However, I came back and did full justice to the horse and sauer-kraut (with dried potatoes), which tasted delicious to me in my condition of semi-starvation.
Horse has a distinctive flavour and odor but is quite edible.
Mon. 3rd Sept.
Last night was exciting – not to say thrilling.
After the lights are out in the hospital the iron covers are permitted to be lifted from the ports and a little air is permitted in. (I have to ask Fritz to do this nearly every night – a German would never voluntarily open a window unless to look out of it.) Well – the ship was plodding along as usual and everything was quiet when the clanging of the big electric alarms brought me from Dreamland with a rush.