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We now began to expect Fremantle very shortly. Fremantle from the distance seems to me to be a very small place. We anchored a good way out from the town itself. The houses in the distance appeared to have tin roofs. We could see bushfires
The Port Surgeon came later and the Red Cross authorities with fruit for the troops. Getting these aboard was a difficult matter but was eventually solved by means of a rope and a pulley.
We lost no time in getting under way. Some men fishing from the side of a vessel caught a shark which was admired although only a small one
In a book that I read about this
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