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Thursday Feb 11-15 – Part 10 Rabaul
Heavens – All my 3 lbs 6 oz of quinine away on board the Navua & I with but an ounce left – Rabaul – empty swept & garnished – not a soul in her – The Eastern & Navua gone & everybody with them – The Fantome & Una left – We are off on Saty.I'm mess caterer & put 8 bottles of Beer in the ice chest & one was stolen inside 12 hours & I talked freely & insisted on the fact that some steward stole this (I'm certain) – I've been told that my thoroughness & strictness wont be liked to which I've retorted that when thieves fall out honest men come by their own – That makes 104 bottles stolen on the Fantome & 129 stolen on the Eastern – value Eastern bottles 6-17-6 for which I have to pay my whack – I'm out – looking for honest men – now for a connected story –
W-day 10th To Matupi to coal – started 6 am. got ended by 8 pm & back to Rabaul (4 miles) by 4 pm – Ashore with Nelson (No 1) – To Lauris to sell our Soda water machine – I induce .L. to come & see it – I to meet him 10 am at pier & [indecipherable] him off – Then to Garrison Hospital
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