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<p class="page" id="a5658007">[Page 7]</p><p>At about 6 oclock just before dark we went in ones down a rope ladder, into the Collier. For we were coaling ship, and hopped on to the next collier by the side and slid down a rope into the dingy, which we got the use of. We pulled first of all to the big jetty and decided not to land there but pull more towards the town It save a 2 mile walk. We were within about 50 yards of the beach when we went clean bang into the sand bank which runs almost all round the bay, but to which knowledge we were not acquainted with, it took us about 10 mins to get her off again, then we pulled to the broken down old jetty and at last succeeded in paddling ashore through water about a foot deep. Well then we parted company, four of us who were coba's (mates) went our way the other 7 going down towards town. Now there was a chap by the name of Hardy with us, who was at Gallipoli, but returned, who knew the place and was taking us to see a friend of his, A certain barmaid in the Esplanade Hotel. Well we cut through the bush and struck the road that runs round the harbour, then the one we ought to have taken but didnt but kept on walking straight up the hill until we struck <strike>the</strike> another road.</p>