Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 139
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[Page 139]
in Australia so far as I have seen - Sea birds are rare - I've seen a gull or two & that's all - On the beach there are no end of Indian Mynahs – a kind of starling of the same species we see in Melbourne & likewise an imported ? pest - By the way the mongoose was imported to Fiji to clear out rats 2 & has become a pest - Father Fox told me they had wiped out wild ducks & were a great curse to farmers & all who kept fowls -
The first thing we saw this morng were liberty men being towed by tenders from the war ships to the beach - Some of them had not been ashore for months - Suva was chock a block with men from the fleet all day - In the aftn I was off with others & had a vy fine walk to the Signal station with Blayney & Herbert - We went up hill right at the back of the township & when on top got a fine view of the encircling barrier reef – ¾ mile off the land -