WITH THE TURKS. 
497 
At Dhomokos itself and on the heights round it, about a mile behind 
the centre of the main position, were placed the guns of position (of 
which, I believe, three only were in action) commanding the line of 
retreat of the Greeks on Dhomokos as well as all the approaches to that 
place from the north. 
A few dead, with the remains of the wagon of which the limber had 
blown up, and a considerable quantity of ammunition, were lying in 
and about the Greek batteries; there were also five or six dead horses 
lying on the reverse slopes. Behind the batteries were temporary 
shelters made of brushwood, in which, no doubt, the Greek gunners 
had bivouacked. 
About half a mile further on the road to Dhomokos a culvert had 
been blown up, but it was avoided by a short detour, easily made 
practicable for guns ; this was not of great importance. On my return 
in the afternoon I noticed that it had been sufficiently repaired to admit 
the passage of several Turkish batteries. 
All the way to Dhomokos the road was strewn with S.A. cartridge, 
a great number of which were also left by the Greeks in the trenches, 
so that they must have been well supplied with ammunition even after 
the tremendous fire kept up all the afternoon. 
East of the town in an open space where artillery had evidently 
been parked were some abandoned wagons, some of which had been 
partly destroyed by fire; a quantity of loose prismatic powder (black) 
was also lying on and about the road. 
We now rested for a time at a spring on the road east of Dhomokos. 
Several battalions of infantry coming up the hill were halted near us 
and it struck me as a good evidence of their discipline that the men, 
when forbidden by their officers to make use of the part of the spring 
near which we were sitting, betook themselves at once without a 
murmur to another source a little further on. 
Hearing that there was likely to be fighting on the Phurka Pass, 
about 10 miles further on, we started again in that direction, but were 
soon turned back on the ground that the outposts had not yet been 
posted. Prom what I subsequently heard it appears that the force at 
Dhomokos did not advance further that morning, but that the 6th 
division pushed on and occupied the pass in the afternoon with little 
or no fighting. 
As it appeared to me that the Greeks were not likely to make any 
further serious stand, and as my early return to England was necessary, 
and by going on I should probably have committed myself to remaining 
with the Turkish army for an indefinite period, I now decided to take 
the opportunity of returning at once to Pharsala and thence to Yolo 
with the view of embarking there either for the Pirceus or Salonica as 
occasion offered. 
I therefore called on the Field-Marshal, who had established his 
Head-Quarters near the old circular fort on the hill above Dhomokos, 
to take my leave and to thank him for the courtesy which I had ex¬ 
perienced from himself and his officers. 
Near his tent I saw about 12 prisoners, one of whom was being 
Position of 
Greek Field 
Batteries 
in gun-pits. 
Head- 
Quarters at 
Dhomokos. 
