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the world was just about here at present.  Shows how ones ideas can become confused!

It was after 6.30 when we started and the roads were excessable.  I feared Champoiseau would put an end to me before I got to Belgium and I was impatient with him, but he naturally could not guess my feelings.  We were challenged a few times and when we got to the fortified town of Bergues were almost put off the road by the ditches in the road itself and the dirt piled high by the side of them to fill in and make trenches blocking the entire road.  I wished it might have been lighter so we could have seen Bergues more distinctly for it appeared to be the most picturesque place with a double row of moats and walls and all the surrounding country was flooded as one could dimly see when the lights struck the shimmering water.  The water had in the old days served to keep the enemy away and again the Belgians had known how to use it.  Between Nieuport & Dixmude