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Friday 30th Oct
Went out on Friday afternoon and succeeded in shooting a pig. Tonkin and myself skinned it while the rest went on a wild goose chase after revolvers.
Saturday 31st Oct
Third payment. Devoured pig. Late in the afternoon the road was blocked by niggers hurrying out of Madang on their way to a "sing,sing".They were painted & adorned with flowers & new lap laps, & carried newly made & painted spears. All were highly excited.
Had some beer.
Sunday 1st November
All Saints Day
We were seated at the breakfast table enjoying some of Ted Frazer's cooking & my pig, when sweeter than the Zephyr of Gül upon the morning air came a sound which for so long had been absent from the plantations of Madang – the siren of a steamer. Did we go mad? Not half. The old boat so long absent from our shores had come at last bringing the long looked for letters, I got 18 from Mother, Lucy