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were taken out in big rowing boats that would hold a platoon, of course we had no sooner hit the water than we were racing one another for all we were worth, we rowed up round the warships & passed the "Queen" "Triumph' Lord Nelson "Queen Elizabeth" & a few French battleships, besides destroyers, torpedo boats, & submarines both French & British, we went for these rows every day nearly, they were getting us used to what we had to do when we landed.
We were also taken on Lemnos for a march several times, it was here that we first came in contact with the French, & this much I must say about them, that finer & more good hearted chaps I never met they would do anything for us
& we got on well with them, & the more I have seen of the French the better I like them, they are very popular right through with the Australian's & N. Zealander's.
Lemnos is a one horsed place it is very mountainous, & steep it has scarce a tree on the whole island though when we were first there the grass & clover were lovely & there were plenty of wild flower's growing everywhere we enjoyed the little visits there then, there are little villages scattered all over it, they are all built of stone, for this is a place where they say that wood is worth a 1d a lb., the people are practically all Greek's, & they are a 100 years behind the times, they do all their own spinning from the raw wool