Fit as Fiddles and as Hard as Nails

with the Turk to exchange our Generals in the field for a corresponding member of Second Lieutenants captured by them at the capitulation of Kut.

Monday: May 22nd 1916: Nasiriyah
Cholera has appeared. I trust it may not become widespread. It is a horrible menace to hang over an army and this is the season when it may be expected.
I met one day a group of Hazaras, a tribe of Afghans; or rather a community of Mongolians isolated in Afghan territory. I suppose they were cut adrift, in a body sufficiently large to maintain their racial characteristics at the time of the Mohamedan invasion of India. Of the little group I saw, three were women, four were men and