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was that we lost sight of the preceding unit & lost ourselves in the open desert! The O.C. for about an hour & half asserted that he was sure that it was "straight on" & confidently led us in circles – any ass could have told that we were circling by watching the stars –. Finally they ligh lit sufficient matches to wait cause the annihilation of an Army Corps had any [indecipherable] happened to see them; and by this means took a bearing with a compass & found to their astonishment that instead of East, we were going due South. Thereupon they retired from the unequal contest & we

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