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27-7-18 Sat (37)
Pull at 7 leave 9 after circling sound outside breakwater in the interval. View of Table Mt without a single cloud is grand & dwarfs the pigmy town. As day wears on meet DeBeer & Runian two flying men This is the day of muck up of berths & to my disgust find myself with 9C Little & Uren the two officers of the SSM school who disgust me more than the others. The officers on board are
Lt EHT Burgess (Gloucester Rgt) * Lt PF Campbell RF & RAR
Capt E L Scales KAR * Lt Duncan RAForce
Lt de Beer RAForce* Col Huygke Belgian Army
" D.A. Young RFA Lt Barber "
Lt Col J F Trelawney [Met Sec?] Major C F Forster KAR RACS
Major P J H Smith KAR RMLI Lt JM Dallas " RS
Lt Bourke McCauley KAR * Capt Wolseley Bourne KAR
Capt H E C Clunies Ross KAR * AIP Lt CH Speller "
Capt H O C Hammond KAR
" C T Soames KAR
Lt. L V Lewis KAR RRR
Boat drill as usual this afternoon. sulky afternooon re change of berths.
28-7-18 Sun (38)
Early rise bath & return to bed to read & then give up as eyes are bad. wonder if I am only tired or in for influenza. Church read more all morning & chatted with Saintou. Slept all the afternoon. After dinner went up on deck & yarned mainly with Campbell & then went below & bought this diary up to date for first time since arrived at Durban. Will now be able to start copying it again for home. To night we ran into a fog & blew fog horn. As this was our signal for boat station most of officer dressed in life belt & overcoats
29-7-18 Mon (39)
My Birthday - decided to do nothing in way of work today - read Palgrave & spend day with poets In evening stand cigars for table & others & find sufficient whisky brought from Liverpool to drink my health. Day is quietly spent.