Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 111
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at 6 am to-day we were up - We got into 2 lines & the ships now keep station & we are steaming full speed for Suva – 8 of us – in our original order – with AE2 & the Destroyers on our Starboard Beam - It's a smooth sea - I was vilely seasick all Monday - She did pitch horribly & knocked me clean out - Tuesday was better & to-day I'm all right again - Dont go to sea in small boats is my tip - We could see the Destroyers go right into it & AE2 used to dip right up to her conning tower - All is well on board & whatever happens we cant go back to Ribaul - I just saw the island Bougainville yesty = aftn= but no more land so far - Ribaul is 4° S of the line & Suva is 18°S so we've some way to travel – 1800 miles -
I am reading early history - The earliest sailors crept along the shore - It is an historical fact that it took 75 days to go from Egypt along the Libyan shore thro the Gates of Hercules (Gibralter) to Gades (Cadiz) - The 1st circumnavigation of Africa – (600BC) was accomplished by a Phoenician ship – in 3 years