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the Luwego prison camp, plainly enough, though 

 the firing must have been well over ioo miles 

 away. 



When I had reported to my chief, I journeyed 

 down to Kilwa, where I saw General Hoskins him- 

 self ; and soon after this the dysentery, from which 

 I had suffered more or less all the time of my 

 captivity, took a bad turn, and this meant going 

 into hospital. To pull through this attack proved 

 a hard fight, and indeed recovery could not have 

 taken place without the unceasing care of the 

 hospital staff generally, and the special orderly 

 who looked after me in particular. It is impossible 

 to speak too highly of the care and attention that 

 brought me round, and, for my own part, I rank 

 the pukka R.A.M.C. man very high in the Army 

 list. 



From Kilwa I was moved to Lady Colville's Con- 

 valescent Hospital in Nairobie, a place so nicely 

 run that a few weeks seemed to work miracles 

 in us patients. It was there we heard the bad 

 news that General Hoskins was leaving, and I was 

 not the only one who felt depressed about it ; I 

 am convinced that there would have been no 

 campaign in 1918 in Portuguese East Africa had 

 he remained in charge. The General came to say 

 good-bye to us at the hospital. 



I was nearly fit again when I paid a short visit, 

 on convalescent leave, to my old school friend, 

 Cole, who had a property at Gilgil, where he was 

 running about 13,000 sheep, managing the place 



