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quarter of a mile at an average depth of 50 feet. 
Each expedition met with a warm reception by the inhabitants but the second 
was of a more friendly nature than the first. 
The first day they went out, the Insurgents and Moslems had had a slight 
difference of opinion as to the ownership of some sheep feeding on the neutral 
territory during the night and had been firing at one another all the morning, so 
when Colonel Chermside and his party appeared, in spite of their exhibiting a 
Union Jack of gigantic proportions, the Insurgents, possibly suffering from 
color-blindness and exasperation and acting with strict impartiality, promptly 
fired upon them, and it was not till the party had advanced to within 600 yards 
of their assailants that the mistake was discovered. When they came up to the 
Insurgents they found one of them with 8 woodcock which he had shot in a 
couple of hours on the spot with a fearsome looking single-barrel muzzle¬ 
loading gun of great age, which he was carrying with hammer full cock and 
muzzle pointing at the person he was favouring with his conversation, and the 
Colonel being an ardent sportman and not having had a day after woodcock up 
to that time, seemed more disgusted at this than at the firing. 
On the second occasion the party was received with open arms—also with 
“ presented arms ”—at the village. The inhabitants took our men in charge 
and plied them with all the luxuries they could produce although they were at 
that time rather hard up for provisions, and by their hospitality tried to make up 
for any little inconvenience they may have caused on the previons occasion. 
Taking the Cretans as a whole they are a strange mixture of frankness and 
cunning, of hospitality and cupidity, of bravery and cowardice and though one may 
sympathize with them in their present misfortunes, one cannot help being re¬ 
minded of the criticism of their own poets which St. Paul quotes, and con¬ 
fessing that it is not unjust. 
K.A. Charities. 
THE Hon. Sec. K.A.C. is anxious to point out the following errors and ex¬ 
planations in the K.A. Charities Keportissued with the last month’s “Proceedings,” 
as he thinks several officers who examine the accounts will be interested to have 
this explanation— 
Page 6.—For March 1895 and August 1896, read March 1875 and August 
1876. 
Page 24.—Donations £84 17s. 3d. and Jubilee Steamer £57 17s. 0^. together 
make up the total amount of donations shown at page 43. 
The apparent discrepancy between the amount of subscriptions shown on page 
24, viz., £914 Is. 10^. and that shown as the total of subscriptions received, 
page 41, viz., £908 12s. Od. is accounted for as follows :— 
£ s. d. 
914 1 10 Subscriptions received during 1897. 
15 12 0 Kefund subscriptions „ „ Page 25. 
898 9 10 Nett „ received during 1897. 
10 3 0 Subscriptions received in 1896 on account of 1897. 
908 12 10 Amount acknowledged on account of 1897. 
Members receiving copies of the K.A. Charities Keport for 1897 are requested 
to insert the correction slips (which will be found with this month’s Proceedings), 
at page 16 of the report referred to under heading 
“ Soldiers and Sailors Families Association.” 
