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tricots and we said we would send him men, also Mr Bacon gave him an operating room outfit. (These things were later [[strikethrough]] sent [[/strikethrough]] ^[[taken]] up by Colby & Phil has since written me that ^[[they]] presented quite a decent sized offering and that I would receive a letter from the Belgian Minister of War thanking me personally.)

^[[X]] The trip to Furnes was not far but it was of vital interest.  To begin with it was getting into Belgium and then the road was packed, jammed with ambulances, [[strikethrough]] Belg [[/strikethrough]] some troops, and some Africans with their Bernouses [sic] of bright colors on little African horses, looking certainly picturesque enough but extremely unpractical.  Every field was broken up by trenches and wired entanglements, ^[[X]] hundreds of men perfecting them.  They were quite different looking from those we had seen - mostly much more elaborate with curved rooms at the ends and deeper.  The road was continually blocked by piles of dirt