Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 88
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[Page 88]
The Governor had a Ford motor car - P & I then walked back - Shiny starlings sulphur colored butterflies - Bread fruit trees & some Ferns & Euphorbias formed the main organic life on the road - The crater & cone must be old if one takes into consideration the humus accumulated on top of the cinder beds - It amounted to 15 - 20 feet in parts I noticed - We got back too late for lunch on the Upolu so we blew in on the Berrima & picked up Lambton & told him straight we were two hungry 'blokes' who wanted lunch – not drink but food - needless to say we got both - I'm ++ sunrise to sunset but I was hungry - Dr Skeate of the Berrima came in - I knew him - He'd been round to the Mainland of N Guinea – Wilhelms Hafen - Nice spot – good but small harbor - No German resistance at all & we had simply landed an armed crowd & garrisoned