TCD MS 10516 folio 6 recto
[25th July 1916] camps or cooled themselves in the flowing river. The stream was very tortuous. As the ship swung round the sharpest bends, the current carried her against the convex shore, but a bump on the friendly land pushed her again into mid stream. The fierce sun struck us alternately on port and star board as we steered about in our sinuous course.
The communication posts at junction camp and Hakika were soon reached. At both of these places we tied up beside the bank to take in passengers and mails. Below Hakika the narrow river widens into the Hamar lake, now so shallow as to endanger our progress. The lake, not long ago presenting the appearance of an open sea, has shrunk to more moderate dimensions. The floods have exposed more