Item 02: Frank Hurley war diary, 28 October 1917-24 January 1918 - Page 37
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[Page 37]
voyage towards Malta (The remainder of the fleet are Eastward bound) Malta was sighted about 11 am and by 2 am [?] we were passing through the entrance to the grand harbor.
From the sea the Island does not impress one, being destitute of trees and prolific vegetation and comparatively flat and rocky. Nearing the Port, one might easily have been deluded into imagining they were entering Watsons Bay, Port Jackson. There lay in the background, the same rocky steepes which characterise Vaucluse, even to the well known outlines of Sth Head. The illusion was completed by the small pilot boat - a duplicate of our Captain Cook. The harbor itself is divided into two bays, small though admirably sheltered and guarded by an imposing series of fortifications. We dropped anchor in an exquisite little harbor