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& present arms, Colonel Watson addressed us & we march back, Take on Board 3 german prisoners 2 Germans & their wives also another Lady & child 2 native women, sail next day
Dec 10th
sail at 10 am & arrived at Tinpritz at 4 am landed stores sail for Siraken [?]
Dec 11th
arrive at Seraken [?], Court martial on German for shooting niggers & attempting to shoot an Englishman, we went through Bouka passage lovely scenery all the way, & dangerous on account of sand bars & reefs 3 boats previously wrecked in the passage, we arrive at 3.30 pm we are the first ship of any note to pass through, Burns Philip [Philp] Plantations are at Seraken
Dec 12th
we leave Sersken at 10 am & sail for Rabaul arriving there the following day at 3.14 pm The reason I say 3.14 is because the officers had a bet about the time we should be tied up to the wharf Lt Johnson won as he said 3.15
Dec 17th
Eastern, Fantome & the Una arrive, the Una was the German Survey boat Komet which our men captured. The way she was captured was as follows, The Nusa a small ship (another Capture) was armed with a maxim Gun on her deck and on Information received from a Jap the machine Gun section & a few other men of F Coy, went and found her hiding up a small river, this was very early in the morning the nusa ran right up to her & the men boarded as quietly as possible & found that there was no one on deck, they went below