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Thursday 1st October
More fatigue! Went with a boat party to gather wood in the jungle. The ants crawled over us & bit large junks of beef off our backs. The sun rendered down all the fat they left & turned it into perspiration which the mosquitoes, revelling in the glorious aroma of the mangrove swamps lapped with ferocious avidity. Needless to say I took immense pleasure in watching Pte O'Brien wielding his axe on the trunk of a huge teak; or ex-constable Sullivan

[Drawing entitled "Lance Corporal Harris of the Latrine Guards]

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