""After all the excitement of our two African halts, and with two more weeks at sea....we settled down peacefully for the long journey across the Indian Ocean...to settle comfortably on the shady side of the deck, we now had to undo the two top buttons of our tropical shorts..." from 'To the Kwai - a" image recto: A soldier sitting on deck in vest and shorts, the shorts undone at the waistband, wearing a sola topi and glasses. He is reading a book and smoking a pipe, and is leaning against a barrel. image verso: Part of a crossed out sketch of men in a shower bath. The other half of the drawing is on the verso of IWM ART 15746 98.