TCD MS 10515 folio 87 recto
[May 10th 1916]
to the North or the Northwest. With great determination they maintained a true course, forcing their way past all obstructions, either creeping over them or deviating so as to circumvent them*. At one place as the body advanced northward it reached the bank of the Euphrates. Here was an unsurmountable obstacle of flowing water miles in width. But the locusts would not be driven from their dangerous course. The impelling instinct, the all-powerful directive force permits of no deviation. The living machine must move in its appointed course even though it be to its destruction. Onward into the river crept the swarm and out over its broad waters. As far as the eye could see the Euphrates was studded with drowning locusts lost by the unswerving impulse of that instinct
* They unhesitatingly pressed on through the halted tanks of our troup and, in their persistent adherence to the course, tumbled blindly into dry water-holes