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articles they are made ridiculously
to feel the want of - A pin for instance,
I remember trying to make a brooche
serve for one, but it could not pierce
the hard cotton of my wrapper, in order
to fasten it across my chest —

We went back to the fumigating
room, a large room, with screens sus=
pended above, as in some laundries
where our articles, & those of our
fellow passangers were hung up, &
here each had to hunt & carry off for
themselves; & considering the number
of things, the smallness of many articles
the confusion, & mingling, the wonder
was, that ^so little was either lost or in=
jured - & now the delight of again
getting ourselves cleansed, & of parting
with our odious borrowed garments.

We have now various means of
employment by which to beguile
the time of our imprisonment —
German or Russian lessons, drawing
&)&) [et cetera et cetera] _ Our soldier sets us a pattern
of industry, in spite of the many
duties he has to perform, of spitting

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