The Henson Journals

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Friday, August 26th, 1910.

Still the rain. There was a rainless interval of about two hours in the forenoon, & that we utilized by visiting quite a creditable waterfall on the moor. A sheep waded & swam across the burn just above the cataract. This seemed a surprising performance, but everything is possible to a mountain sheep. After lunch we left Garvocks, & went to Artarman, Row, by way of the Clyde steamer from Greenock. We passed quite close to a Brazilian battle–ship, and, when we arrived at Row, we found several destroyers lying in the river. Everywhere are the signs & tokens of naval war.