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Rough Diary

Left Port Adelaide on the 6th Augt after a
fairly fine passage arrived in Sydney
on Friday evening the 10th. Coaled &
[illegible]. Magazine Rifles Webly [illegible] &
accoutrements also ammunition from the
Noral stores left, Sydney on Sunday 12th morning
for Brisbane arrived at Brisbane on
Tuesday 14th Captain Creswell. [illegible] took
in coal & water & left for Townsville on the
13th after a fine passage. Coaled &
took in water, left for Thursday Island
the 15 pm. arrived at Thursday Island on the
22nd Coaled & took in water left for
Manilla 23rd the weather was very fine
but the heat was intense I formed a
very high opinion of the men during
this trip & belive from personal
observation that for endurance these
men are equal to any in the world.
the ship's being newley commissioned it
is allways the practice to drill both
watches until the Crew are effeciant this
the protectors crew did this without a single
complaint of any kind we did not
call at Manilla but called at one
of the Philippines islands called Ilo
Ilo latley captured from Spain during
the late war. The Insurgents are
still causing a lot of trouble here
I visited a prison & was informed
that it was about 300 years old.