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the Flag & the Frenchman & finally went alongside the Upolu about noon & so wound up a vy jolly little stunt - That's the thing for the crews – swimg - walking & being decent men in place of drunken Rabelaic swine – so long as their higher brain cells are not inhibited by alcohol all goes well -

The vegetation up the creek & all around the shores of the little bay we lay in was densely packed & verdantly green - There is no beach at high tide - I would love to remain here & be in a position to work out the whole flora - However it is mostly done I fancy – Stoker & Haggard were real good [indecipherable] - Stoker is brainy & can talk - H is the athlete & good fellow but not the talker - Both men most kindly & sociable -

Three months ago if a prophet had told you that your husband wd be in a war fleet – in medical charge of a submarine flotilla & ate & drank & slept on a Submarine you'd have thought the aforesaid prophet was a lunatic yet so it has befallen - By the way E3 has gone – E1 at Rabaul (A = Australian) E2 is here -

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