An elephant could march easier unseen into a house than we into Syria!" "So we must double back ?" said I."Good! By now they must have ceased looking for us, supposing they ever thought us anything but drowned.

Somewhere we can surely find a ship in which to cross to Gallipoli!" He laughed and shook his head again.

"We slipped through the one unguarded place," he said.

"If we had come one day later that place, too, would have been held by some watchful one, instead of by the fool we found in charge." Then at last I thought surely I knew what his objective MUST be.

It had been common talk in Flanders how an expedition marched from Basra up the Tigris.
"Bagdad!" I said.