p.

2.

the dress was short & a cotton shirt again. This winter
weather in this country is really ridiculous - early
mornings & evenings & nights are bitterly cold & the
daytime is often extremely hot. I get up in woolen
underclothes & battle dress & still shiver. - yet at
midday I am often in an agony of prickly heat &
have to run & change into summer rig. Peter
now has a coat made from an old army blanket &
he is very pleased with it.

Most of today's walk was over difficult ground at
first up & down through olive groves, which are built
in terraces on the hillsides & with walls of 3, 4 & 5
feet high - so for 2 miles we climbed walls & jumped
of them. The rest of the remainder of the way
was along a wadi which is a dry & stony river
bed. All the rivers in this country are wadis,
except when the heavey rains are actually on - with
the exception of the Jordan. And even when we
left the wadi from time to time the ground
was all rocky & stony & hard going. This is a
bloody part of the world, really - it will be
wonderful to return to walks along country
lanes & through green fields & meadow. This
country looks quite grand & romantic but when
you get up to any particular part of it, it is
just rocky & dirty & stony & barren. And yet
it was called a land flowing with milk & honey
- it flows with absolutely nothing unless it is
worked & watered like hell.

Peter disgraced himself again & at the first shot
from my rifle. Made off. It took 3/4 hour

2.

the dress was short & a cotton shirt again. This winter
weather in this country is really ridiculous - early
mornings & evenings & nights are bitterly cold & the
daytime is often extremely hot. I get up in woolen
underclothes & battle dress & still shiver. - yet at
midday I am often in an agony of prickly heat &
have to run & change into summer rig. Peter
now has a coat made from an old army blanket &
he is very pleased with it.

Most of today's walk was over difficult ground at
first up & down through olive groves, which are built
in terraces on the hillsides & with walls of 3, 4 & 5
feet high - so for 2 miles we climbed walls & jumped
of them. The rest of the remainder of the way
was along a wadi which is a dry & stony river
bed. All the rivers in this country are wadis,
except when the heavey rains are actually on - with
the exception of the Jordan. And even when we
left the wadi from time to time the ground
was all rocky & stony & hard going. This is a
bloody part of the world, really - it will be
wonderful to return to walks along country
lanes & through green fields & meadow. This
country looks quite grand & romantic but when
you get up to any particular part of it, it is
just rocky & dirty & stony & barren. And yet
it was called a land flowing with milk & honey
- it flows with absolutely nothing unless it is
worked & watered like hell.

Peter disgraced himself again & at the first shot
from my rifle. Made off. It took 3/4 hour