A great gulf separated us now from the life we had known.

We began to realize that the individual was submerged in the great flood of corporate life, and the words of the text came to me, "He that loseth his life for My sake shall find it." The evening was spent in settling down to our new quarters in what was, especially after the camp at Valcartier, a luxurious home.

Dinner at night became the regimental mess, and the saloon with its sumptuous furnishings made a fine setting for the nightly gathering of officers.
We lay stationary all that night and on the next evening, Sept.

the 29th, at six o'clock we weighed anchor and went at slow speed down the stream.

Several other vessels had preceded us, the orders to move being sent by wireless.