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We arrived in Sydney on Thursday morning, a few minutes before two o'clock, and I stayed up to see what happened. By good luck there was no fog, which made things easier.
The first thing in the morning we cleaned up our cabin, and afterward we all went ashore, to a little hotel where we had baths. Bathing on the Morrissey is a very rare thing, although probably later on we will use the big round washtub which was meant for clothes but which I suppose can take us too. When Dad refitted the vessel, at the shipyard down at Staten Island, they put on the deck a big steel water tank which holds about 750 gallons. Then there are the water barrels too so that we really are pretty well fixed.