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The Grantala too was signalled - I hated this because I wanted the lot to myself - However I was very nice to the Protector crowd & if they send a landing party you bet I'm there to help - Presently we went up on quarter deck & yarned away Spooner is English - 30 - out 2 years - Then our Motor boat hove alongside & Elms & Porter were asked aboard amp; we had Port wine & yarned & then left -By the way a prize turned up – S.S. Sumatra in charge of a prize crew followed by the Parramatta - a German trader - but ours now - She anchored close to us & we steamed round her & had a look at the fat German skipper & the armed blue jackets & thanked goodness we were top dogs -We then turned the nose of the motor in shore & by Jove the dense jungle & the coco nuts excited our great admiration - An intensely green dense jungle almost to the water edge forms the fore shore - That extends back & then up go the hills – some low & others cone shaped towering to heaven - A shrub some 8 - 10 feet was a blaze of scarlet but I could not determine its kind
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