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Crest Royal Mail Steam Packet Company

                                                                                                                                  R.M.S.P.  "Arcadian"       12.5.16

My dear everybodys-

My last was posted a few days ago before we reached Malta & I sent a card from that island to Pater.

We anchored off Gibraltar for an hour & so had a splendid view of the fort & port.   But no one landed.   We just dropped the mails and came on.   Hugging the African coast closely we reached Malta yesterday.

The passage was quite calm and uneventful .   I put in about seven  hours ashore and saw a bit of Valetta with its  bells, yells and smells.   It is a wonderful old place & the forts and cathedral

  

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