TCD MS 10515 folio 124 verso
Sun are certainly an excuse for a grumble. But I cannot think we have much to complain about yet. For the month of June, the days are surprisingly cool, very different from the reports we heard in India, and far more bearable than I had expected. I suspect that those who are more bitter in their railings a- against this “intolerable heat” have had little experience of fiery furnace of the Punjab. The daily breeze is a blessing; we are not allowed to forget how refreshing it is, for each even-ing it dies away leaving us to gasp in an oppressive calm.
Our fleet of gunboats has increased; now we are three; the Greenfly, the Gray-fly and the Snakefly. Certainly no bio-logist named these craft. He must have been as ignorant of insects when he