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getting home as I have to spend at least two days in Sydney to have a Turkish Bath & get any clothes etc. However Kismet. Still it is annoying I should have liked to be home for Xmas. This is a terribly dull boat. Nothing to do, nothing to read, and I believe that they will fete us in Melbourne & Sydney which means more time lost.

14.12.18
I personally have now given up all hope of spending Xmas on land. We have only just reached Freemantle [Fremantle] today owing to a heavy head wind & sea most of the way from Colombo. Also we have to undergo short quarantine of two or three days & call at Albany to put off the Westralians

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