Alexander diary, 1917-1918 / Roy Alexander - Page 94
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The stewards got away with most of it but the next table boasts a big dented plated horror of a tea-pot which is fought for by the other table on an average once during each three meals.
Thu. 22nd Nov.
We are now well down towards the Cape – the first albotrosses we have seen for many months arrived today – two of them.
Fri. 23rd Nov.
Smooth, heavy swell.
Hundreds of birds flying round the vessel mostly the black Cape Pigeons and albatrosses.
Sat. 24th.
Off the Cape; have crossed all the Australian and Asiatic trade routes without any success; this morning "Wolf" swung North again to re-cross the various trade-routes.
Fri.
30th Nov.
A bad week for me.Two days ago the Younger Butcher carved my foot; yesterday I had to return to the hospital with violent pains. A vessel captured this morning; I knew nothing of the capture till Bob told me during a visit to the hospital.