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Descriptive Log.

Being a Record of a Voyage from Belfast via Glasgow to Our Colonies. Adelaide Sydney Melbourne Brisbane. in the good ship Torr Head. Twin Screw Steamer.

Kept by the 4th Off. C.W. Loughridge

Green Earth has her sons, and her daughters. And these have their guerdons, but we Are the wind's and the sum's, and the water's Elect of the Sea.

Outward Bound

October 11th

Holidays over, and work beginning. And I am actually glad, even holiday making gets wearisome, the days drag, and a longing for action sets in.

To day I bade good bye to the old folks, and the old place and set my face shipward. My Saratoga trunk, filled to its utmost and lashed with a rope, knobbled with mysterious knots and hitches, is stowed safe and snug. I spent this evening at Keppel Gunnings Mrs and Ethel Gunning were there and we all had tea together, the four of us at the

same table reminded me of a very pleasant time in Cookstown but that has nothing to do with a Voyage to Australia. Later, I called down at the ship, the crew sign articles tomorrow at 4 o'clock, at which function I must present myself. Turned in with Bertie tonight, the bed is so narrow that we overlap at the sides, luckily, however I do not squirm or kick in my sleep so there is no danger to limb or life by reason of midnight somersaultings: for his own sake and that of peace, I hope Bertie is also a sound sleeper. If I fell out and did not waken I would not object to finish my slumber on the floor, (alas my poor brother - If I did wake)

October 12th am

Went down to the ship after dinner. There are sailors and firemen waiting here already in the hopes of a berth. It is only two o'clock, and signing on takes place at 4 o' clock, it is usually six o'clock before the last man is signed on.

At 4 o'c the shipping master came down - the Rules and Regulations relating to their engagement, time, and ports, also the scale of provisions +c were read aloud by him to the assembled crowd of sailors.

Every person, beginning with the Captain and officers