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Sunday 18th Oct
Had the day off & went for a boating expedition with some mates & succeeded in capturing a good number of fine bananas. Coming home we passed many coral reefs & saw some extremely beautiful sea bottoms.
Arrived home we had tea & being tired were just about to roll in when my name was called by Lieu. Chambers. Another robbery! But it was not. We received order to report with full equipment & ammunition at headquarters at eight o'clock – twelve of us. We were there on the stroke & led Major Martin & the doctor. We rowed in a boat for a few miles up the coast pulling into a creek our guide – Weir - tried to make a landing but failed for some time owing to dead trees lining the banks. At last one was effected & - ye gods! – Bugler Moore & I were left to guard our boat. The language used by us was enough to have lit up the Egyptian darkness, but it failed & our comrades blundered on through