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Updated: May 5, 2025
The motor-launch beat away from the Rangoon. Monty, standing in the stern, lit a pipe, and stared over the match-flame at the empty troopship. Jimmy Doon, sitting in the bows, surveyed the hill-locked harbour, and said to me: "Well, there's one comfort: we shan't be killed on Gallipoli." "Why not?" "Because we shall certainly die at Mudros."
After running aground several times upon the sandbanks, we entered the land and hill-locked Lagoon of Bay, and reached Jalajala early in the morning. Formerly large vessels full of cargo used to be able to sail right up to the borders of the lake; now they are prevented by sandbanks. Even flat-bottomed boats frequently run aground on the Napindan and Taguig banks.
And while the strategists on deck were getting delirious in their prophecies, the ship steered a path round two outlying islets, and entered the deep indentation in Lemnos Island, which is the mighty, hill-locked harbour of Mudros.
Swiftly came a change like the sudden smoothing out of the rushing waves of a hill-locked, wind-lashed lake. The face was again Ruth's face and Ruth's alone; the eyes were Ruth's eyes supplicating, adjuring. "Ruth!" Ventnor cried. "While you can hear am I not right?" She nodded vigorously, sternly; she was lost, hidden once more. "You see." He turned to us grimly.
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