TCD MS 10515 folio 37v
[April 23rd 1916]with their bright burning suns. Little or no news from the Tigris. Townsend must be down to bed rock by now. We learned on Wednesday that Trebizond had fallen. The brilliant advance of the Russians does not appear to have much effect on the Turkish acitvities here. On Thursday, when in Basra, I met Major Morris of the 84th Punjabs, had lunch with him at the British restaurant and later brought him to Makina for tea. I saw the first specimen of Danaischrysippus. Major Morris came to lunch the following day. A monitor, or as the Naval people call it, a river gunboat, has appeared on the river. She is called the “Gadfly”, one of a class of vessels, known locally as “The Fly-Boats”. Others are the “Greenfly”, the “Mayfly”, the “Grayfly”, the “Dragonfly”. One, the “Firefly” was cut