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yards with a .45 Colt automatic. The strange thing about it was that he aimed at it.
The deck space is very limited and we are only allowed sufficient for about one quarter of our strength from 9.30 am till 12.30 pm., and to keep the men fit we have to devote practically all this time to physical jerks. In addition to these parade hours we manage to work in about one hours signalling and three quarters of an hours bayonet fighting each day; and to Cpl. Brissenden's great delight the skipper has given us permission to use the bridge semaphone. This is worked by two levers corresponding to the arms above, but as one of them is a few degrees out of the true, it becomes very difficult to send intelligibly, as allowance has to be made every time for this error.
The men are keenly interested in morse and the three buzzers we have are in use all day. Cpl. Brissendedn is looking more of a ruffian every day, and to see him with a suit of dirty old dungarees and a brown handkerchief tied round his close cropped head, he looks for all the world like Long John Silver before he lost his leg.