Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 212
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by a providential influx of Mutton birds - This Petrel goes North to Masthead Island - I know & Masthead Island is off Gladstone in Queensland & the Great Barrier reef starts or ends somewhere thereabouts -
Thursday Oct 19 – 1914 Since I last wrote nothing of note has occurred - The weather has been perfect - What a lonely sea this vast Pacific is!! Not a bird, not a vessel until we touched the Australian coast somewhere in the vicinity of the Seal Rocks & saw the strong light to the North of it -
I was up at 5.30 & the morning broke perfectly - Our trip is ended & all one has to do is to see to it that his mental horizon is wider – his knowledge of nature & man improved added to - In my own case I think I can safely say that that end has been very fully attained -
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