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<p class="page" id="a5658041">[Page 41]</p><p>Then because our cooks use all the old wood, we are giving a lecture by our Major, that the Goverment has a bill against it for £: 600 for shacks destroyed, by our cooks, to keep fires going. Now the whole truth is this, niggers build shacks of old wood, boxes, any old things, in all probability stolen for the Goverment, live in it and sell goods at ten times their value, and make a fortune in a few weeks or so, (a niggers fortune I mean) then go away and leave the place which is not worth 2/6 as far as wood and fittings (excuse me) are concerned, (In fact there isn't anything concerned). The cooks are supplied with chucks of wood (of a sycamore type) which is absolutely the worst possible wood one ever saw, It wont burn, its hellishly hard to cut, one cant split it, one has to chip it it is like rubber. Of course the cooks used to pull down these shanties in all innocence to help the fires along. They are terribly handicapped all ways</p>