we are sleeping, with such a force as almost to make us think our old ship could not stand it. 6 All the boys took it well however and it never even interrupted the different games of cards which are going on sometimes even all night. The deck above my hammock began to leak, resulting in my getting wet and cold during the night. Though we are equipped with rubber cape which can be used in such emergencies, mine was packed away in my haversack and of course it would require the light of day to pick it out so consequently I shivered all night till morning.

The first time I felt in the least ill since I left Charlottetown since I first joined up on July 26th. As the boys make a habit of getting sick when their time comes for table orderly, I tried to do my turns, so today I am going to try and finish out before reporting sick. The weather is still bad and must wait possibly an hour in the cold for Mulligan which we get every morning, noon and night. At noon we get nothing to drink, but morning and evening we get poor coffee and tea (China tea too) made by Chinks. It is extremely unpalatable to our Western taste and very few of the fellows drink it at all. I have not touched it yet and will not unless I am very thirsty, but there is plenty of water, and it is much better than tea. The first few days I could not eat anything except a few chocolate bars and biscuit we can buy at the canteen.

" Major Howland in his diary reports that the ship was warned ofthe approaching storm by a Japanese ship one hundred miles away

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