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September 21, 1926 : Head Camp (Lower & Upper) ; Rouffaer River


Tuesday
September 21
1926

More reading. We had been starved literally andwere [sic] once more indulging in an orgy of reading with nothing to do but wait it helped make waiting easier. Both mails which have arrived since we left A.C. have come at a time when they could be the better appreciated. At Motor Camp during the flood and here. Late in the afternoon the Dyaks and convicts with more convicts and Dyaks from Head Camp arrived with a note from Captain Posthumus informing us to come up by land so we had to desert our magazine[s] and get busy packing for an early morning start. Everything had to be packed in small tins for the overland trip and we worked until late in the evening to get the things we needed separated from that {F3.80} which we would be forced to leave behind until the water drops, and it can be transported by canoe. It was a big task, because we did not have many small tins suitable to be carried. Each man carries seventeen kilos and as we had no scale we had to guess at it.




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