5th _____ Weather clear[ed]...good, water still rough today _ was pay[day]...I didn't draw any money. We had a little fir...[ar]ound 4. We will get into Pearl tomorro[w]...6th.
5 days out of stat[es]
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Another damaged page.
Joe "didn't draw any money"--meaning he didn't take any for himself, but had it sent home. Photo shows payday aboard the Mobile.
"fir..." is probably "firing"--meaning gunnery practice and not a fire on board.
5 days out of stat[es] -- Joe begins his count of how many days since they left Long Beach in February. He usually wrote these in red ink and underlined them.
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