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be hanged. This was, presumably, in case the condemned person had an unusually tough neck. The Mahommedans pray 5 times daily at 6 a.m., 12 a.m., 3.30, sunset and two hours after sunset. On the way home I discovered a cake shop run on rather a novel plan (to me). As you enter you wander take a plate and cake fork from a small table, and wander about the shop, harpooning any cakes that take your fancy. These you pay the cashier for and walk through the shop to an open-air café at the back, and you can obtain tea or any other beverage from the waiters. It is a fine plan.
11th
Finished stables, and fell in for church parade. Lazy afternoon.
12th
Cossack outpost training in morning, musketry drill and bayonet fighting in afternoon.
13th
In morning, we had a plan of a regimental bivouacking camp illustrated out on the desert. We dug trenches, and formed breastworks of stones. Afternoon we filled in trenches dug on the 9th.