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Friday, March 1, 1918

Cabin steward awakes us up with announcement that the Irish Coast is on Port side and the Peruvian fleet on Starboard

Enjoy Scotch seaman's chatter while working on A deck. He describes the 350 odd stokers on board as lion-hearted. March in 27 parade O.D. this afternoon - I find things rather mixed up. Sergt. Hamilton the mess-sergt. a very good man. Place so crowded when I relieved MacElvain that I couldn't make head nor tail of it. By the evening I began to get a line on things. Atmosphere very dense. Men sleep at night up in hammocks suspended from the ceiling so thick that one can't walk thru after night.

Little concert in Dinning Saloon. 


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Saturday, March 2, 1918

"Oh! day of Rest and Gladness", no duties to-day. Spent a part of the day at ease in a deck chair under a red checked blanquet of Bugs'es.

Every body interested in Submarines. They like [[lurk]] on bottom of sea during daytime. Come up at night to get wireless messages from Berlin & do a good deal of their work at nightfall or dark.

Walked around A deck with Freddie Ordway and saluted the Colonel and several Majors three times apiece after which our consciences being apeased we made our way up higher. 

The nurses are very well looked after now most of the time

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Edited: removed bracketed correct spelling of word appeased, transcribe how author writes the word