Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 168
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that encircles the foreshore at Simpsonhafen & a hundred other islands that we passed in the Coral sea & Solomons & Hebrides – neither on the foreshore of Suva itself nor on the embrasured opposite shore can you see a dozen cocoa nut palms - In the Fiji Times I noticed that our cook got fined 2 £ or a month - We wish he'd taken the month - The PM said he had noticed a good deal of drinking going on by sailors from the ships in the harbor & he was going to prevent it - He might as well try to mop up Suva harbor - The inborn desire for Beer is at present ineradicable in the breast of the average sailor & soldier man & drunkenness awakes but a tender, kindly sympathy among the many friends of the inebriate - you see Tars with their arms round their mates gently supporting their failing forms, lowering them into the launch, supporting them in the boat & helping them up the gangway & tending them till the Bacchant sleeps heavily in his hammock