sand-tracks

Updated: May 9, 2025

I never saw such white sand before. One had to misquote: "Come unto these SILVER sands." I made some careful drawings of the sand-tracks of the bay; noting down tracks being a habit with the scout. In these things Hawk was always interested, and often a great help; for, in spite of his fifty years and his buccaneerish-habits, he was at heart a boy a boy-scout, in fact, and a fine tracker.

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.

I was looking about for sand-tracks and shells, and I noticed that the grass had grown much more luxuriously at one level than it did lower down. This grass was last year's and was now yellow and dead and rustling like paper flowers. "This," said I to Hawk, "was last year's water-mark in the rainy season." "That's gospel," said Hawk; "and what would you make out o' that observation?"

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.