Eighty years ago today Tuesday 13 May 1941

Feeling well nowadays, but not really fit. Food is not very wholesome, meat is bad; just a steak and kidney pudding at home would be a luxury. Out on the plains now we meet millions of insects and lizards, etc. I haven’t seen a live snake, but others have seen quite a few, one a 5 ft [1.52 m] cobra. My room is a place of torture after dark, mosquitoes and insects of every kind. We now try burning a certain chemical-like incense.

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