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April 14th.,. A&jaday, The mosquitoes ware pretty bad all night but 
"dope” did helpj tied pants dosra about tops to keep pests out of bott<m end, 
Put a rainooat over bare skin abow, because shirts isFer© -wet and oven wet 
undersMrt was too hot end steasjy to tolerate under rainooat which I Imd to 
button to neck to keep mosquitoes out, 
white hat was soaking wet, too, 
so to protect ]'®ad, put my piece of towelling over it, tucking it well around 
head and over ears so that I could barely see under part of edge, and Just tip 
of nose stuck out* Over bare Imnds folded across chest I laid my kliaki shirt 
to keep mosquitoes off th«i top edge of shiirt was pulled over chin and ticked 
about neok to meet towel, Bv«q so, the Hjosquitoes were troublescme, as it 
seemed at least, I woke up about ©very IS minutes to put more dope on edges of 
rag (towel and shirt), on tipe of mse aM chin, cheeks, end haad.s. Cheeks 
must have been a bit sunburned, because dope stung a bit} and once I got same 
in eye* Also put some on so that mosquitoes would be deterred in biting 
through siiirt and ditto on exposed tc^s of socks between shoe tops end tied 
down pants bottoms, I got p* 0 tty stiff and e ramped not aovii^ so far as I 
could make out, Cuess i was afraid to turn much for fear of exposing sos^ part 
of me to mosquito attack. As I learned later, some one or other of party was 
up ail night tending fire because oouldn’t sleep. After supper I fell so 
sound asleep tiiat I did not fritaess pistol signalling, woke up Just about time 
it was all over, Crawford had signaled ship with his flat light. These 
are heavj’' to carry, but great for sipialling great distances if ^<ou know the 
Morse code. 
Ho one craved any solid food. Just liquid, liquid, liquid— anytliing 
with liquid. Canned tomatoes were very welocmie, but w eight was against 
them, yet the f act tim.t it was like oariy that precious ooHsaodity water oonn- 
pensated for tte f act. We ate up at least one can of raisins, couple of 
hard tacks wad couple of strips of bacon. Sugar and tea went over great j 
