TCD MS 10516 folio 44 verso
[15th September 1916] ika, and I hope the owner was well fined.
We were off two hours after sunrise. Difficulties soon again ensued. We stuck, refloated, stuck again. Now we set sail, now poled, now towed, now shouldered the bellum off the treacherous banks. It was soon evident that the remaining bellums were of more shallow draught than ours; they all had their adventures on this mud, but our bellum stuck more firmly than the rest; the remainder drew away and were soon out of sight. All day we were blown about the lake, churning up the silt; sometimes lying motionless, firmly embedded. Then we would shift the kit, hoist larger sails, pole, pull or push the boat in our efforts to get free. I guessed that the Arabs were magnifying our difficulties; they were aiming at a holiday on the