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about three times a day – if I were good at sketching I would draw you a sample of some of our livestock friends life size – they are guaranteed pure Turkish breed & only found on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
It is wonderful to watch all these men going about doing their work a great number stripped to the waist & almost as black as niggers from the sun, they look like a lot of surf bathers from Manly nearly everyone goes in for sunbaths, as it is the only sort of bath one can get.
I have just been inoculated against cholera, merely as a precaution, as this is supposed to be a cholera country in the Summer months, & it's just as well not to take any unnecessary risks.
The Turks have a 'bomb' which we call the pumpkin it is round like a soccer football & weighs 92lbs – it makes an awful noise when goes off near one & causes a good deal of head bobbing.
Well Babs I've no news. I can talk about so will say good-bye for the present. Give my kind regards to Mr Mac & Wilkie. I'll bet Mr Mac was glad the rain came at last, tell him I wouldn't mind being back with him now giving him a hand with the old "yows" it's a much better game than this.
Give my love to John & Graham & tell John not to let you spoil the lad
With much love
from Sam
[Transcribed by Darren Blumberg for the State Library of New South Wales]