Friday, December the 24th, 2004
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“The ship was the antithesis of the floating palace we had left… White-collar workers, adventurers, toughs, would-be toughs, and leather-faced old scoundrels crowded every foot of available space, and when walking up and down the deck we had to dodge foul squirts of tobacco-juice. Their chief occupations were drinking and playing ruinous crap games, and the noise that went on all the time made my study of Spanish grammar a difficult matter.” — Lt Col P H Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett