our skipper, Captain Evans, told us that [illegible] American boats, the other [illegible] British. They are all painted "camouflage", that is, multicolored in a hap-hazard way looking manner and are most astonishingly hard to see at a distance of three or four miles or even at two miles. They do not stay near us for any length of time, but loaf along across our bow and then with a saucy flick of foam shoot off to a position six or seven miles away just on the horizon. I suppose their idea in staying away out there is to catch "friend" Hun before he sights the ships and submerges.

Well, dear people, there is nothing more to tell you of our trip. Life on the boat goes on very much the same, day in and day out and we will all be glad to have chanBC Archives, 93-6553 Box 4 DREWRY FAMILY Selected Correspondence, 1917 – 1919.