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Under the Shadow of the "Sphinx": Graves of Men Killed at the Anzac Landing.
"The valiant dead that gazed upon the skies,
And slept in great battalions by the shore."—Leon Gellert.
[The New Zealanders at Gallipoli]
[CHAPTER I.]
The Concentration of the Expeditionary Force.
The pioneer settlers of New Zealand left the Mother Country for many reasons, but primarily because they wished for a freer existence. They certainly did not choose an easy path for themselves. They could have settled in English-speaking countries comparatively near, but they deliberately left England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland for a land thirteen thousand miles away—a land covered with virgin forest and inhabited by a proud and warlike native race.