We told him he would have to lump
it, and he got sulky; as each extra package was put on a cart he said
that it would break to pieces. Certainly the tents were very heavy, but
we had been ordered to take them. When the carts were loaded up to the
last degree they moved slowly through the mud and drew up at the
hospital. We were sadly overladen. Our party consisted of Mawson, West,
Cutting, Rogerson, Willett, Blease, Angelo, Whatmough, Elmer, Owen, and
Hilder--the last four being our friends of the railway journey from
Nish. We were thirteen. Temporarily with us also were the two little
Austro-Serbian boys. The other four carriages were occupied by a doctor
and three members of the Stobart unit, two "Scottish Women," their
orderly and a Russian medical student who had been a political prisoner.
Leaving the town was a slow business, as it was being evacuated. Our
little procession proceeded very slowly. Most of us walked. Jo drove
with two of the Stobarts, watching from a seat of vantage the packed
masses of people who wormed their way in and out between the ox carts.
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