25th October, 1943: Exploring Karachi

This morning, as soon as Joe was paid, we decided to spend the evening in town, and made our plans accordingly. When "Banana Willie" came arond we were ready for him. He is always made a great welcome when the boys have money to spend on fruit. It seems strange, but at home we would think it ridiculous to spend two shillings daily on fruit alone. Here, we do so because we cannot buy sweets, chocolate, gum, etc. and think nothing of that expense. Loftie, Joe, Bill Gibson and I went to town to introduce Joe to the Baksheesh men and women. He needed no formal introduction, these beggars very soon introduced themselves to him. 

We did not stay in town long, did a little "shop crawling" and returned for dinner and to change for the evening. As we had planned this morning we set off to town after dinner. During our shopping, Joe and I got separated from the other two and we wandered around some of the other streets. We did not stay, we only walked through and realized that there was a new field of the city to investigate at some future date. We returned to the main street, and made our way back to camp.