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& machine guns. Keeping up a desultory fire, & an occasional salvo from the batteries, we fell asleep.
On awaking in the morning the hollow resembled an ant bed. Heads were bobbing out of dugouts; tired "cornstalks" were stretching themselves in the mounds & some were busying themselves in boiling their billies.
By daylight one can see the difficulties encountered by the landing party, & appreciate their great work. The hills covered with a short prickly undergrowth, slope in almost precipice-like manner to the sea & valleys. Now everywhere at every point, the hills are terraced, & dugouts show out resembling vast warrens. Water carriers stream to & fro to the firing line; Indian A.S.C. pass by with their mules laden with ammunition & at intervals the big guns round Shrapnel Gully boom, & force the new-comers to bob instinctively. Spent Turkish bullets crack