Item 03: Frank Hurley war diary, 24 January-13 August 1918 - Page 12
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are so employed, and are attended by natives. From the dump at Ramleh we motored over the dusty bumpy road to Jaffa. Jaffa is much modernised and has lost most of its attraction. I was much interested however, in the landing of railway materials which is at present going on. The cargo vessels lie out to sea, and the stuffs are ferried in by surf boats. The port is extremely treacherous, as the boats have to pass through a narrow waterway between rocks of Andromeda, and even when inside the reefs there is barely enough water in which to swing them.
There is some fine color in old Jaffa, the walls being painted a variety of
tints with here and there glimpses of the deep blue Mediterranean. Like
all other villages and towns, old Jaffa is filthy and smelly. Around the town are