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Everywhere are horses, horses. They are a nuisance & need more nursing than a baby.
13/2/16 Mess orderly today with Holmes, Washing up is no light task when there are over fifty & all these things have to be done in one's own time. A soldier has no set hours. He is on for as long as needed & no wages board nor unions to appeal to. It makes one keep on thinking what a lovely place home is. We are much the better however when our minds are occupied. Pierce goes for a ride & gets a fall.
14/2/1 Get two bracelets from Abeiba & a pair of ear rings off another native girl. Go for a ride into the desert leading a nag. The one I rode would persist in jog-trotting until I was sick to death of it. After tea we move the whole kitchen & camp further away, to have more room. 10 pm I go on stable picquet & have a pleasant time with the fifty horses in the dark. They get astray at times & give me a busy time.
15/2/16 Wake up at 12.30am & go to sleep. Awake at 2.45am again. Get Faith out of bed to take his watch, & I sleep under a wagon. It rains & I get wet. Drizzles all day. Feel very tired at night after having been up for two days & then carrying bags of food all day. Put