Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 32
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[Page 32]
knows but what trouble may yet arise in the island & all necessary military precautions are to be taken - I need hardly say the town is strongly occupied by the military - One nigger – a fine buck – had a most swagger of light colored felt hat turned well up on one side a la Tommie - He had a colored loin cloth but that wasn't the lot – on his right arm was a band & fixed in that was the true symbol of the a higher civilization – a tooth brush - He – at least – was serene & composed & equal to any emergency - I saw a native police man – on Sentry go at a hatch - He looked – rifle & all – a most imposing figure – like an Indian Sepoy Talking of natives – we heard that the Germans had trained & armed a native police & at the Kagakaul Scrap they were up in the trees in the dense scrub & potted our chaps - When their turn came wouldn't their fall be sudden!!