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Descriptive Log.
Being a Record of a Voyage from Belfast via Glasgow to Our Colonies. Adelaide Sydney Melbourne Brisbane. in the good ship Torr Head. Twin Screw Steamer.
Kept by the 4th Off. C.W. Loughridge
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Green Earth has her sons, and her daughters. And these have their guerdons, but we Are the wind's and the sum's, and the water's Elect of the Sea.
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Outward Bound
October 11th
Holidays over, and work beginning. And I am actually glad, even holiday making gets wearisome, the days drag, and a longing for action sets in.
To day I bade good bye to the old folks, and the old place and set my face shipward. My Saratoga trunk, filled to its utmost and lashed with a rope, knobbled with mysterious knots and hitches, is stowed safe and snug. I spent this evening at Keppel Gunnings Mrs and Ethel Gunning were there and we all had tea together, the four of us at the
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same table reminded me of a very pleasant time in Cookstown but that has nothing to do with a Voyage to Australia. Later, I called down at the ship, the crew sign articles tomorrow at 4 o'clock, at which function I must present myself. Turned in with Bertie tonight, the bed is so narrow that we overlap at the sides, luckily, however I do not squirm or kick in my sleep so there is no danger to limb or life by reason of midnight somersaultings: for his own sake and that of peace, I hope Bertie is also a sound sleeper. If I fell out and did not waken I would not object to finish my slumber on the floor, (alas my poor brother - If I did wake)
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October 12th am
Went down to the ship after dinner. There are sailors and firemen waiting here already in the hopes of a berth. It is only two o'clock, and signing on takes place at 4 o' clock, it is usually six o'clock before the last man is signed on.
At 4 o'c the shipping master came down - the Rules and Regulations relating to their engagement, time, and ports, also the scale of provisions +c were read aloud by him to the assembled crowd of sailors.
Every person, beginning with the Captain and officers