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70 Days out

all held up.

29th   Detrained at Perham Down (Tidworth) 6-30 am., marched thro mud & sleet & ink black dark abt 1 ½ miles to camp then round & round the camp for 3 hours in pouring rain.   Not expected, not known, no provisions for us, no shelter.    9 am herded into bare huts, no fires but soon fixed that, no tucker but biscuits from ship.   Brought all the P.L. [Port Lincoln] blankets away with us & are now issued 4 more each.   Mob of half starved miserable savages.

30th OK at last.   The trouble all comes from that mud bank in Freetown, we're lost identities & had been notified here as

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