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Updated: June 20, 2025
Sepia-coloured puffs appearing in the sky above were followed by sharp explosions and the rattle of descending shrapnel. For several hours the tumult continued unabated and then the whistle of German shells became less frequent until at last it died down altogether. Towards noon about a hundred German prisoners passed by under armed escort. The ridges had been taken.
There is room. It was still very hot: smoked spectacles kept off a certain amount of glare, and I wore two hats, a straw on top of a felt, having neglected to bring a solar topi; but even so the sun was unnecessarily generous, glowing on the splendid polish which some of the Arabs carried on their sepia-coloured skulls, and making it impossible to follow the crested larks, singing their heads off, up in the brilliant sky.
"God's peace be with thee!" was a parting salutation which I heard many times repeated. At last we got fairly clear and paddled off through the sepia-coloured water, watching the softly undulating shores, which soon sank low enough to show the blue, irregular hills in the distant background.
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