<A June day. An iron deck of the carriage is overheated like an oven. The only relief is to lie down on the floor and take some air through a little clink. It reeks of urine and excrement but the air is a bit cooler. We by turns lied down on the floor to "breath" through the clink. But thirst...>

Nobody thought of food even though they lately rather often forgot to feed us.

What a miracle! Are those cows diving? When the time came I saw the reason of that fancy for water sports. Only in the water one can escape from gnat, a damned mix of mosquitoes, black-flies and clegs. I don't remember whether such a plague of Egypt is mentioned in the Bible?