leptas

Updated: August 7, 2026

One or two Greek natives followed us about with melons to sell. Parched and choked with sand, we were only too glad to buy these water-melons for two or three leptas. The rind was green like a vegetable marrow, but the inside was yellow with pink and crimson pips the colour of a Mediterranean sunset. One day ashore on this accursed island and the diarrhoea set in.

John Hargrave - At Suvla Bay : Being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great war.