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sometimes pitching, sometimes rolling, but never standing on her beam ends. Since passing Melbourne we have not been favoured with an absolutely rainless day. Each day it sprinkles more or less. The sky is always overcast, the air cool but not cold, the nights no colder than the day. The night before last my hammock was torn so I slept on the floor but lengthways with the ship with the result that I was rolled from side to side obtaining no sleep. Naturally I obtained somebody else's hammock for last night. As I am writing, altho' it is Sunday, I am playing chess for there

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