Item 06: Letters sent by Robert Christian Wilson to his family, 1918-April 1919 - Page 174
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[Page 174]
which are our horse lines and all the chaps - some washing, some asleep, some grooming their horses and here and there a farrier at work, fixing up any horse that has lost a shoe on the road up here.
Away down at the bottom of the hill is a wadi with a small stream running through it and bordered on each side by figs, pommegranites, blackberries and grape vines, all cramped together but growing luxuriantly, and here and there, on level places, melon patches cover the grounds and wind their tendrils over the rocks giving the wadi more than ever the look of tropical profusion.
Along this side of the wadi is a track which leads down to some troughs a little further along the stream - up and down this the regiments are going to water in long columns - one man to three horses generally - broken