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grown on the island is ground in the wind-mills scattered over the island in hundreds. The process is very slow & the flour makes a very heavy kind of bread.
On December the 24th we left the island on the "Derflinger". Christmas Day passed very quietly & hungrily on board, & had it not been for the kindness of certain Aust. citizens who had sent Christmas Puddings many of us would have gone without food. Nevertheless we made a meal of some sort out of weevilly biscuits, bully beef & plum pudding (& not too much of the latter). At night the officers held a feast (in camera) but there happened to be a peep-hole in one of the shutters through which a hungry private could make out chickens & hams disappearing & bottles emptying to the musical rags &c. On 27th December we arrived