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With the monkeys & the niggers on the shore
Eating oranges & lemons & paw paw by the score
O! tell mother we'll be there
Where they never drink or swear
And we're not going back to Sydney anymore.

Sierra Leone 7/12/16

7th   No indication departure.   Rations very short & rotten.   Practice reading the Semaphores from warships.   8 hour parades in 98% humidity,  many going sick.

8th   Few at mess,  over 200 with low fever.   Still they insist on parades (mostly physical drill). There is only room for one squad at a time & others sit on the hot & wet winch beds waiting their turn.

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