Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 210
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[Page 210]
Upolu again I can tell you -
Harrison – our wireless man – gives us news whenever he can - A ship is much safer at sea with wireless - Knock your propeller off – catch fire – out go distress signals & people know where you are & off they go - We learn that a German cruiser has been hobbled up at Mafia island & that island is German E. Africa - The usual ebb & flow of babble in N France has ceased to interest - We want a definite issue badly -
Nat history stirred my sluggish brain one day when I saw a tropic or 'bosun' bird – Phaethon tropicus? He or she is about the size – perhaps larger – of a silver gull - They have a raucous gull like note - They are white & you spot them by the long tail streamer – 12 -18 inches of feather -