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These trade winds are very good I should
fancy for homeward bound sailors

Frid Jany 23rd 1880

274 miles 27 [degrees] 57 Lat S 12 [degrees] 37 Long E Lovely morning
sun shining brightly with a stiff breeze Just
to give you an idea of practical jokes
the which you have to go thro I turned
in pretty early after tiring myself
with a game of taking the castle by
storm Several of us took up position
between the Donkey engine covers the
enemy attacked us on both sides
and we sallied out knocked them
down push them back pull them
in & thrust them out the other side
how we broke through the ropes &
stuff without breaking our legs
is a mystery but to return I had
just turned in for a comfortable
snooze when some of the young