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June 28, 1926 : Albatross Camp (Base Camp) ; Mamberamo River


Monday
June 28
1926

Yesterday Matt and I worked on his diary. We turned out about 18,000 words on the Corona. Today we continued the task and as a result now have over 20,000 words on interesting material to send home. It was a big task. Nothing much of importance doing now. Everything quiet.




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