Item 02: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 5 December 1914-26 February 1915 - Page 108
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[Page 108]
Ajax told me it was no surrender – If a German came up he was to run & if overhauled to burn his ship so Ajax had a tub of Benzine fore & aft to turn over & put a match to & then tumble into the boats but said he – I've fixed the firehoses up so that if the blighters cleared out we could tumble inboard again & put – these self created fires! out & off we'd go – He was great fun – He'd tell wonderful tales 'what King George said' what Earl Roberts had said & so on – Give him enough Beer & he'd go on & on & never repeat himself –
Saty Jan 16-14 – Cocoa at 6 am – Back to Rabaul – I'm off to the Yarra – My patients better but they'll be bad again tomorrow – 3 malaria & one ? rheumatism – Then off to the Warrego & saw Commander & - Cumberledge – He's been 430 miles up the Kaiserin Augusta River – in G. N Guinea – He'd been in touch with tribes that had never seen a white man before.