Wed Jan 4th 1911 [4 January 1911] Off at 11 from Victoria. Marna and Val Pease in the train and the whole Cobham party going to Switzerland. Sir Frank S. [Swettenham] came to see me off. Cold and rough crossing. Luggage registered straight through to Marseille and no douane till there, so I drove across Paris with my small Handgep‰ck and dined at the Gare de Lyons. Viollet and his wife came to see me there and gave me an account of their journey. They spent only one day at Ukheidir [Ukhaydir] so they can't have done much. But they say my plan is accurate. He said he had planned all those interesting monasteries in the Tur Abdin, but he had never heard of Khakh! A little black French woman, very aimiable [sic], in my sleeping compartment.