Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 189
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[Page 189]
a section of the harbor – I had Suva foreshore on my left & the harbor with the reef in the distance on my right - I met the Captain (Moore) on the way but he is far too fat for transport - He did a mile & a half & then returned - The captain sweated & blowed when really the day was cool & walking perfection - I wish the R cd have been with me to see the flats with birds on them at ebb tide - Reef heron & a bird, whose cry I knew from Gayndah, long before I saw him – the sandpiper R & I watched them on the Burnett Sands many an aftn last year - They are a cosmopolitan species - R has seen the Screw Pine (Pandanus) – trees on stilts – at Caloundra – also the Mangrove & the black mud they love to live in - Well I had a jolly tramp on my own it is true – but it did me good – You meet very few or no whites but Indians & Fijians galore - I was at the launch at 6 sharp & soon on board the Upolu - Coaling was over & we were only some 400 yds from the beach - The ship had been washed down - We had dinner & then some Bridge - Again I noticed – all eveg - one of our officers the worse for drink - This is very rotten I think