July 1) No land in sight or any vessel. Sea moderate but several passengers sea sick. The sky overcast with rain storm during from noon until sunset. The officers aboard are all Indian Army + on their way to Mesopotamia or Palestine Egypt by way of Karachi. My room mate, [illegible], is bound for Egypt. He has theatrical taste + his father is a leading playwrite of London. One of the recent N.Y. successes is by his father. One of our entertaining travellers is Turnbull, a motor cyclist who has seen much of China + the East. 2) Weather - sea as yesterday. At 4 P.M. we reached the mouth of the Strophie which is here very wide, the banks appearing at a great distance very low