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27 Jan to 31st Jan
In Indian Ocean
1 Feb 19
Arrived Colombo, Ceylon. No leave granted, but the majority of the soldiers & sailors went ashore on their own account. I climbed through the porthole & down into an empty lighter & went myself. The lighters were coming over to the ship full of coal & going back full of soldiers.
Needless to say we were not particular about our dress, most of the soldiers had no tunics & our chaps were in overalls or anything they could get. The first thing that greeted us when we got ashore were the rickshaw men, all in a group outside the shippingyard gates. They were all clamouring after us to ride in their particular rickshaw. The rickshaws are built exactly like a sulkie only on a very small scale of course, as the men run along between the shafts &