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[Drawing of an alligator entitled "As we saw an alligator (art unalloyed")]
Monday 26th Oct
Hoisted up the wireless pole.
Tuesday 27th Oct
Went on outpost at the cross roads for a week with Cpl Clancy, Wakley, Hynes, Drummond, Tonkin & Steer ("Dags" for short) The post is in a very beautiful spot where the road runs through a narrow fringe of cocoanut palms lying between a belt of massed swamp undergrowth & the waters of the haven. On the other side are the many tinted stretches of the virgin forest & arising into the mysterious clouds which ever hang their poisonous folds about them, are the blue coast ranges – the "on top" of the long shore Kanaka.
The spot though beautiful could by no means be called healthy for the waters of the swamp teem with mosquitoes which nightly ( & daily) terrorise the inmates