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One afternoon I varied the programme by doing a sketch of the the little gully called Rest Gully where the Fifth Field Ambulance from Sydney & commanded by Dr. Roth was camped during the occupation. With the horse & mule in the foreground it made a decent sketch. Another variation was a sketch of the Valley where we are camped & this though small was successful. Our Valley "Kara George" or "Black George" is dull but interesting as a problem in monotonous colour. One evening I wandered into other valleys back of this, the country resembles moorland in Yorkshire or South England, som not unlike the bare stuff around Frensham Ponds. I startled a fine hare but no chance with a revolver with the close scrubby bushes. As the sun went down my friends the Jackals began their requiem accompanied by the yapping of wild dogs & wolves, quite cheery. Home James says I & on the way back I had the good luck to see quite a big wolf-like creature, but almost out of revolver range. He lost a little hair however and I'm sure has returned by the shortest route to Constantinople. Continued under different tones.
Yours
G.W. Lambert
Capt. A.I.F.