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our blood. The Boat is overrun with Crabs. The Ships Quartermaster Butler went down to Appendicitis today?

25.3.16 Saturday
Arrived at Colombo today plenty of cocoanut palms paddles like spoons. Yankee Boat with an American flag painted 4 times on each side & the name "City of Savannah" in between. We are to be allowed ashore tomorrow for a couple of hours. The Harbor is entirely an artificial one. the town looks very pretty from the ocean side the first thing we struck was fishing Boats before we neared the land at all. labor must be cheap here we see them towing big barges filled with sand. The coolies are now coaling the ship. We
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