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CAMPS AND CAMP LIFE 129
express train, and in a few seconds I was in the
thick of it. The wind was so strong that it nearly-
lifted me bodily out of my saddle, the dust filled
my eyes and my nostrils and every pore in my
skin, lashing my face like a thousand pin-pricks,
and making my eyes smart as frOm burning hot
fumes. The eight miles’ ride home in face of
the gale was by far my worst experience of this
kind.
The storm, as is usual here, lasted for three days,
and when it was over it had swept the summer
clean off the face of the earth, and, although we
had many a fine day later on, the season of winds
DUG-OUT FOR WINTER BIVOUAC.
had commenced. The winter was in the air, and
the nights were very cold. From khaki and the
lightest of underwear we had to don warm winter
clothing, and we had to shift our camp to the
bottom of a deep donga, where the winds could
not reach us. With the soldiers it was, of course,
the same. Their whole camp had to be re-
arranged, and they had many ingenious ways of
making things snug and comfortable. If close to
some steep hill, big holes were dug out in the
hill-side, and there they fixed their quarters. In
some places they built nice little houses of a
few sticks of timber and turf, and sometimes
sandbags, but on the plains the most common
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