Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 77
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[Page 77]
instead of really minutes -
This flat ground – this foreshore – going back to the volcanic talus is much bigger than it seems & the ground runs back in little bays separated by promontories - In the only little bay we penetrated this aftn - were graves "Hier [indecipherable] im Gott" was the impressive headline - Has Gott anything whatsoever to do with man? Does he guide or watch this human debacle that has engulphed decent quiet humanity in its awful vortex? I doubt it - I agree with H G Wells who speaks of a nest of human ants [indecipherable] kicked by a German fool of the ruthless barbarian type - A Chinese grave of a young girl spoke of her as Fraulein – while Chinese characters filled the rest of the stone - Amaryanths were here & Clerodendron ? the 'bleeding heart' creeper - Not many graves, some dozen or more, gone to their rest before our flag flew over their harbor & island & their relatives & friends were torn from plantation & store to