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with great taste & without a note of music before him – plays any key suitable to ones voice – when one fellow gave a rotten rendition of Songs of Araby – my thoughts were miles from here.

We crossed the line at luncheon time today.

Poor Higgins the O.C. [Officer Commanding] is still bad had a tem[perature] of 104° yesterday better this morning but has risen again tonight, hope he improves tomorrow for I'm afraid he will make a poor fight for life if he gets really bad.  In about 8 days D.V. [Deo Volonte 'God willing'] we should be in C[ape] Town.

Thursday 3/10/18
Weather fine with cool breeze until 7 p.m. when we had a few showers of rain.  Nothing to note except usual ship's

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