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epsom salt in it, & when the dentist got through he squirted a generous shot of engine oil out of a large ^[[oil]] can in the victim's mouth. The dog they have for a mascot here was also put through or over the barber chair & dumped into the tanks. The pollywogs outnumbered the shell-backs three to one but were not organized and so did not gang op on shell backs as has happened on other ships & at other times. A few pollywogs who tried to get tough got shoved around a bit; but there was only one casualty of the day. In the preliminary scuffling one man's head got banged up against an iron plate; painful, but he'll survive said the doctor; & he'll get his certificate too. Colored mess boys went through like [[strikethrough]] any [[/strikethrough]] everybody else; & [[strikethrough]] fillipins [[/strikethrough]]philippino cooks & capt's boy [[to?]]. The royal barber cut out very generous chunks of hair