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the chaps used to get mad & often there would be a fight, every morning as soon as reveille went we would all turn out or be pulled out one or the other, & fold up our blankets inside the hammock, & they would then be stowed inside a big bin at each end of the deck till about 8 oclock, when the orderly's would put them on each mans hook ready to be slung when you came down to turn in, at night time all our portholes were covered, & we were only allowed a certainly amount of light, for at that time the Emden" was knocking about & we had to be careful. We had a good trip across the Great Australian Bight we saw any amount of shark's between Victoria & West Australia
We reached Albany after a trip of 7 days, we anchored a fair distance from the pier, from a distance Albany does not look very big, the country round about it appear's to be fairly hilly, & the hills seem to be covered with a scrubby growth something like verbena, & tea-tree we laid in the harbour for a few days, & then we moved up to the pier to take water in, at the entrance to the harbour a strict watch was kept by our cruisers, & a big Japanese boat, they were constantly on the move, backwards & forward's. We had a march through Albany & the whole town turned out to see us, we marched through it, & stretched our legs, that night a lot of our chaps, borrowed the fireman's