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represented by a small cruise ship and the Japanese one by a cargo steamer. Small ferries and motor boats, as well as yawls and occasionally a cruise ship move about now and then, but hardly bring much traffic into the usually surely very lively harbour. Thus even this remote corner of the world suffers from the war, and unemployment is said to be very high everywhere.
At the above-mentioned [indecipherable], the port doctor, a giant of a man, and our new commander, a short, stocky man, had already boarded our ship. Like at other ports we called at, here too we had to subject ourselves to a medical examination or, rather, an inspection. We had to take off our headgear and bare our left arm up to the elbow, but to what purpose is a mystery even to the doctors among us, all the more so as neither an examination proper nor any fingering or palpating was undertaken.
And so we poor prisoners of war have at last arrived in the country of our exile. When will we leave it again?