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to the dirty mongrels being on strike we who had been away fighting for them could not get ashore owing to our ship having to pull out in mid stream to get coaled by free labor.

It would have been a sorry day for the dirty lot of scunks if the boy's could have got at them, at that time they were all waiting outside the Wharfe to deal it out to some free labourer, but if the Boys had got them they would have been mince meat now.

We pulled out from there after 2 days stay, and headed across the Bight for Adelaide which we reached after a few days sail of good weather.

At the Wharfe where we pulled in at Port Adelaide there was a big

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