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<p class="page" id="a5658018">[Page 18]</p><p>drink called Neer-Beer which is 6d. Which is a similar drink to Hore-hound Beer, which is used at home, One penny is returned on all bottles when returned. The canteen's are run by the Government but strange to say 2 civilians work them aboard, The sea this morning was like a sheet of glass, I have never seen it so calm before. It was a beautiful sight The flying fish were about in their hundreds, and one saw the fin of an occasional shark, A very deplorable deed was done by two of the boys when they went ashore at Columbo They got hold of a nigger at home, killed him, did things unwrittable to his wife and then set fire to his house, This very same thing happened in Cairo when the first Batt went there, with the exception that they tied the women naked to the bed posts and put them in front of the windows and then set fire to the house</p>