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In the glare of
our headlights, little clumps of soldiers, with donkeys loaded with the
new uniforms, loomed suddenly out of the darkness. Once a donkey took
fright and bolted back, and the soldier in charge yelled and pointed his
rifle at us. If we had moved he would have shot without compunction.
Later the men had bivouacked, and all along the rest of the road we
passed little fires of fresh brushwood, the sparks pouring up like
fountains into the night, round which the soldiers and drivers were
sitting and singing their weird songs.
At Podgoritza we found Dr. Lilias Hamilton at supper with her staff. She
has had rather a hard time. The hospital was intended for Ipek, but for
some reason, although there were wounded in the town, the Montenegrins
decided to move it to Podgoritza, where there were none. After a
difficult journey across the mountains they settled down, but could
never get sufficient transport from the Government to bring their stores
over, except in small quantities.


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