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<p class="page" id="a5658049">[Page 49]</p><p>Well we went ashore and had a ripping time, Freemantle is a rather smallish town but big enough if you can understand what I mean, It has trams etc. and is five times I should say bigger than Albany. The people are good and treated us like Britons, Of course the majority got rather full but there wasn't any disturbance ashore, One can excuse them for that they have been away a long time, and Freemantle is Dinkum Australian stuff. One chap from our mess fell backwards and split his skull and is in Hospital ashore be put off a cot case, the poor chap is suffering from cancer and idattis but they didn't tell him about the cancer. We have been racing against time for the poor chap and won but God only knows if the operation will be successfull or not. We pulled out into the stream about 7 oclock, and before we dropped the pilot one of the Seamen fell overboard, He was drunk and wouldnt get hold of the life belt but kept</p>