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June 25, 1945, Monday Nite
...Well I just finished a hard day. We had jungle school & it was really in the jungle. Its amazing what these Aussies know about the foods & such. We learned to make traps & also the diff. foods. They have one tree that they make ropes from and eat the fruit, a kind of stuff that looks some thing like corn. Also Papaya which grows on a small palm, looks some thing like mushmelon & taste better, also one palm that furnishes leaves to thatch the huts and a food that comes out of the top called millionaire salad. They serve it in expensive restaurants. Seen some banana trees, but the fruit wasn't big enough to eat.
Well I finally got that laundry dry. Has a strange odor, but its very clean. Raining again and we are refilling our water supply.
Also I made a lamp globe by taking both ends of a big bottle. Done it by burning a string around it. Use a candle in it & get a very steady light. I'm using it now & note the diff. in writing.
Well I hope you folks are O.K. & not working too hard. Its hard to believe that its almost time to lay the crops by. These crops around here all grow wild. We found wild tomatoes in a big grown-up native garden. The tomatoes are about the size of tommy toes if you get what I mean.
Well I'd better sign off, you have my days activities and the weather report. I'd better hush and write my gal. She's a nice kid...
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