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15 hole, had to look up to see the top, next moment you was away up on top looking down into the hole. they told us that it was very bad at that time of year. I kept my eye on a life belt until you could almost see where it as worn by my watching it so close. the officials gave the ship up as lost and sent a lot of torpedo boats and cruisers out hunting for us, we pulled into a harbor and got tied up to some kind of a wharf. there was crowds of French people young and old to welcome us, threw oranges and every thing good to eat at us, but we were not allowed off the boat, when we did land [section crossed off] I got twisted went into box cars 40 and 42 men in each car, rode 3 days and nights with only four stops of about 15 mins each, going a good clip all the time. when we got of the train, tired out, put on our packs and marched 25 miles mostly in the rain, some swearing, x you could hear me above the others.