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hurry. He returns shortly & states that a man has been shot through the neck - "only a flesh wound" he says & "he is lucky to get off so lightly "but just missed the carotid artery". It is a parching hot day & I keep wetting my lips with water for I have only a little left & have no idea when I will get the next X lot. The firing gradually ceases & about 4 pm we move on. X See back. We round the hill & jog along up a winding road & suddenly come into a large city. The population are crowding the streets & we have some difficulty in proceeding. I ask the name of the city & the reply is "Nablus". [? ?] & so we have just taken the town that we have been trying for for nearly a year. We have been after this town for nearly a year. We enquire for water & are escorted by a crowd of excited & cheering natives. Three boys come to blows as ^to who which one shall lead my horse. We water our horses