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regaled us with howling versions of Tipperary and other songs. These guys just don’t know
how to behave.
The passage through the harbour again was wonderful! I had a German doctor, Dr Finzelbach, who had lived in Sydney for a long time, explain all the sights to me and was even more taken in and awed than the first time by the magnificence, the size and the beauty of this most wonderful harbour in the world. But again the harbour was eerily quiet and Dr F. said it was hardly recognisable from what it was like before the war. There were maybe 4-5 English steamships and 1 Japanese vessel, but apart from 2 big American schooners there was absolutely no life on the water and at the wharves. How badly commerce must be suffering here! Shortly before crossing the heads breakfast [it seems this should rather be dinner, but he unmistakeably writes breakfast] was served, but the rough sea became soon noticeable and several gentlemen had to take leave rather abruptly. We others dug in all the more eagerly.