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train at Portsmouth a heavy thunderstorm broke which had been brewing all day, we just missed a good ducking. In the morning before we set out on this trip Mr Duke took me around to a Dr to see if he could do any thing for my severe cold he gave me a prescription which I got made up at a chemist's.
The people about here look on me a bit of a curio, for an Australian is a pretty rare thing in these parts.
10th. Got up pretty late this morning as it was Sunday, had a fine breakfast of fish, plaice they said it was, about 11 oclock Mr Duke a friend of his Mr Elliot who has been a fair while in Tasmania & is a jolly nice fellow, & myself went for a walk round the country at the back of Littlehampton, the country

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