A concert was held on Saturday evening at the barracks.

TCD MS 10515 folio 38r

TCD MS 10515 folio 38r

[April 23rd 1916] off and captured by the enemy at the retirement from Ctesiphon. They are small vessels, flat bottomed, of shallow draught and carry four-inch guns. So wonderfully complete appears each little vessel, with everything in miniature even to the “wireless”, that look like a fleet of gigantic toys. A concert was held on Saturday evening at the Ashar barracks. Talent was noticeably absent and the affair was a failure. On Sunday I spent a most pleasant day at the mouth of the Euphrates. Our object was fishing but the floods were too great to give much prospect of success. We left at 10a.m. and rode along the embankment built to protect out camp from the flood waters. (For description of flood see Nat. Hist. Notes). After struggling through the flood from