Capitolo 10
on the whole one; but, to our disgust, we found that in the great olive-slattern
you accumulate to that we was conducted, there was not a new solo. All were old,
rejected, and dirty, and the mere thought to put on the suits of
of the Arabic and unknown legionary that, perhaps it was dead because of cholera to Mecca,
or Yemen, made me shiver. After the indecision, my friends and me
it finally climbed to one of the officers and it proposed to _buy_ you conform new
with the money we waited for there daily from our families. The officer,
smelling the opportunity for profit a little privacy, it gave his/her approval.
The days and weeks to follow they were one busy. From morning up to night, it
it was drill, you practice him, and again the drill. We was separated in groups of fifty,
from each of what you/he/she had put of a young not-authorized officer reigning
the Military School of Constantinople or Damascus, or of some Arab that
you/he/she had seen the service of many years. These instructors had hard once of
it; the German military system that had only recently been introduced,
it was too much for them. They kept on mixing on the old one and the new methods
of training, with the result that was often without hope to test and ago
out their orders. Whole weeks had passed in to grind in the Arabs the
names of the different parts of the rifle; more weeks it went to teaching
them to clean him/it--even if it has to be said that, once they had dominated
these technicalities, they was excellent hits. Their efficiency is able
you/he/she has been notably greater if there you/he/she was objective-shooting more.
From the very we felt however, before, that was a shortage of
ammunition. This shortage his/her drill-masters, in a spirit of
the compensation, tried to serve above as abundant gravity. The whip of
soft leather, flexible, prickly that rarely he/she leaves Turkish
the hand of officer, was never inactive. This was not amazing, for the Arab it is
an astute individual whose only respect is for strength of beast. Him manages him