Item 02: Frank Hurley war diary, 28 October 1917-24 January 1918 - Page 99
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[Page 99]
considerably, but the "Wadies" are still bogging and we stuck several times. Just outside the village of Mughar we had Magneto troubles which prevented us going further until a reserve car came to our assistance.
In the interim we visited the native village of Mughar and secured a series of plates. The village is built on a steep hill which rises from the plain, and is by far the most pictorial I have visited. The houses, if I might so dignify them by the word, are built entirely of mud and stone - very little of the latter. They are invariably hedged in by high walls, flat roofed and squalid. In the small courtyards are kept considerable numbers of fowl, and here the numerous children indulge in the same pranks as our own offspring. The women, too, arrayed in their multi