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by lumbering 6 weeks rations to the storehouse. We received quarters in one of the New Guinea Storehouses with the Starvation Six in the right hand corner among the copra bags (&incidently copra bugs)
The niggers are much similar to those of New Britain – some dimunitive & weedy & others tall and well built. They are all very strong but nevertheless slow & work to a monotonous roar and screech. They all make use of the lime on their hair which turns it a dirty yellow.
Friday 25th September
Went on oupost duty on the east of the town & learnt some Kanaka from a nigger. Had only one alarm. Camped all night under the cocoanut palms near a water hole, what with thoughts of being borrowed by an alligator or being blotted out by a falling cocoanut, the effects of an aching tooth, things were most comfortable.
A scare was caused in the town by German residents signalling to their friends outside. During the day about 100 niggers marched in and lay down their arms & were put in the local booby hatch.
Saturday 26th September
Nothing of importance happens. The inhabitants