Item 15: Archie Barwick diary, 1 October-14 December 1918 - Page 132
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I am having a great difficulty writing these lines for the ship is nearly turning over every few minutes, we have lost half our crockery already. You should have seen it sliding up & down, & off the table these last couple of days would make the eyes of china manufacturers shine. I can see us having a pretty bill to pay at the end.
7th. Have been nearly dead the whole day long nothing but a shipwreck would have any interest for me poor Horan & I laid down on the deck & we stopped there for the day & only were roused by a squall which forced us to go below & it is like a little Hell down there how the place stinks it makes me sick when I even think of the place. This morning I took a dose of salts & they were in warm water ugh. The most horrible stuff I ever tasted but it done me the world of good for it opened my bowels & eased my frightful headache a lot. I only had a piece of dry toast for