Thursday 11th March 1915
Mataria and Musketry. Mataria is the only green spot about here. We get shade and the eye rests on fertile fields of Oats Barley and Alfalfa. One sees the two team oxen drawing an old wooden plough along the heavy earth, camels in the fields kneeling to take their huge loads of forage, and here and there the cattle tethered on their feeding ground for the day. The land is heavy and wet with the irrigation waters continually flooded on to it but is immensely productive. We returned to Camp at 4.30 p.m. Dusty and dry.
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