article in demand, the next bein fruit which was particularly refreshing after we had been without for so long. I was lucky enough to get out with one of the buying parties, but as soon as I had stepped into the very first tobacco shop from the dock gates an officer bounced out of a car and ordered me to double back to the ship as she was sailing immediately; this of course prevented my obtaining any souvenirs of my visit to Cape Town; I just managed to get aboard before the gangway was drawn up. We left Cape Town about five o'clock in the afternoon and continued our journey, reaching Durban on the morning of August 12th. These four days were much more interesting than the previous part of the journey, from the fact that we kept close in to the coast all along and had a very good view of the coast line and the mountains in the distance; then too we saw more life in the way of fish and birds than we had previously seen on the whole voyage; we came across thousands of porpoises and dolphins in big schools, one or two sharks, and occasionally in the distance we would see a whale spouting. Hovering over the schools of porpoise were very large numbers of gulls and albatros, which were continually diving for the fishes disturbed by the porpoise. We also saw one or two covies of birds which had very much the appearance of wild duck. On this part of the voyage we also came across many more vessels than we had seen between England and Cape Town. Our stay in Durban, where we arrived about seven o'clock in the morning of Saturday, August 12th, was only of short duration. We moored alongside the quay next to the Union Castle Line's S/S 'Comric Castle", which was to bear us to the end of our journey by sea. First of all our kit bags and baggage were put on the quay, then taken aboard the "Comrie Castle" by natives. While this was being done we beguiled the time by watching the native dock labourers at work.. And how they work! They absolutely raced around the sheds and were all the time chanting a monotonous sort of tune which evidently helped them to pull their loads. While we were waiting to disembark a large number of people came alongside the "Suffolk" and threw aboard tremendous quantities of oranges and bags of toffee & pop- corn (evidently a favourite sweetmeat in s. Africa). As soon as all the baggage had been stowed aboard the "Comrie Castle" we were all marched on to the quay and then straight to our respective messes on the ship. Here again we were the recipients of large quantities of fruit and sweets and were snapshotted many times by the onlookers. The "Comrie Castle" was a well appointed troopship, but was sadly lacking in deck space; fortunately, however, it was the last stage of our voyage. The food was not near so good or satisfying as we had received on the "Suffolk", where we had an abundance. There was no room for games or exercise of any descripotion, but there was more air space below on the mess decks and the atmosphere at night was not nearly so stifling as was the case in the "Suffolk". On the whole, however, we made a bad swap and I think we all should have preferred to finish the trip on the "Suffolk"; in fact we all seemed to have quite an affection for this vessel. The voyage from Durban to Kilindini (Mombasa) harbour was quite devoid of interest, apart from the few occasional vessels that we passed and the glimpses that we had of the coastline from time to time. The sunsets that we witnessed in this stage of our journey were quite remarkable, far surpassing anything I have ever seen at home. We arrived in Kilindini harbour on Sunday morning, August 20th, at about 7 am. Here is a splendid natural harbour which could apparently be developed splendidly; at present vessels have to anchor in the middle of the river and tranship passengers and goods to lighters which 4