Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 82
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[Page 82]
All here has been done in the thorough manner characteristic of German science - The name plates are porcelain & burnt in & polished are the names - black letters on a white ground - very effective - I brought one off to show my friend Jack Bailey & get him to adopt it in the Brisbane gardens - Pots are not used but bamboo cylinders – full of earth & young plants in them - We wandered on up a gorge like the Launceston gorge but minus the S.Esk river & Haggard trusted no nigger would pot us - This I scoffed at considerably so on we went up a nice track & over little bridges with trees & lianes & creepers on both sides of us – ferns too – Bird nest – Asplenium & Aspidium & Polypodies - no orchids nor Maiden hair were in view - At the far end we came up against the volcanic cliffs which dripped water into a small rivulet at the topbottom. We saw a gorgeous crimson & black bird – a vision only – listened to the burble of a pigeon – startled a lizard
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