Item 01: G. O. Hawkins articles and notes ca. 1916-1919 - Page 161
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(6) (12)
or something
One feels young here and full of energy
I do anyhow
At last I feel my chance has come to make good and I am going to succeed.
Not that I ever doubted myself, for always have I willed that I would do well in the end. Of course my real day is far ahead yet, my very own day, but I can wait knowing it is sure to dawn.
Just now we are busy converting this old fort into a suitable camp, my architectural knowledge and general wide experience of engineering, surveying, and various odds and ends come in well fine. With plenty of local labor at my command I am able to carry on fairly well. Of course we have an interpreter interperater; a man who speaks several tongues.
From now for a few months we will have what they call the bad weather
However that will soon be over. So far the weather
[Diary ends]
[Transcribed by Eric Hetherington for the State Library of New South Wales]