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Annamite, barelegged barefooted only short white trousers and wear a straight conical Annamite palm hat. [[drawing of hat]] Everybody tells me my [[underline]] Panama hat no protection must wear helmet (topee) [[/underline]] bought one $4.00 Am.  Visited zoo, pretty park, animals of the country, tigers, monkeys, birds also [[strikethrough]] black b [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] small black bears, [[/underline]] with dense jet black fur and a white or yellow crescent on upper chest.  See [[underline]] no horses [[/underline]] nor [[underline]] horse vehicles; [[/underline]] only ricksaws or other vehicles pulled by men. Quite a number of automobiles; mostly small "Citroen", all make much noise with their horn as in Paris. [[underline]] Ford well known and liked. [[/underline]]
In Zoo saw apes catching
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lice from each other, in [[underline]] same way as Chinese children [[/underline]] did in [[underline]] Canton [[/underline]]
[[underline]] Annamite men and women [[/underline]] wear [[strikethrough]] slea [[/strikethrough]] sleezy shiny long black trousers, and women wear long narrow slitted shirt above. [[strikethrough]] All [[/strikethrough]] Those who are not barefooted wear a long [[underline]] narrow slipper sandal of wood, [[/underline]] or wood and leather which makes [[underline]] noise [[/underline]] similar to wooden shoes of Japanese. Great number of bicycles, coolies, barefooted annamites, functionnaires etc. [[underline]] all have bicycle. [[/underline]] Reminds me of time when ^[[a]] bicycle was a luxury some 30 years ago and [[underline]] when I could not afford to buy one, [[/underline]] and the [[underline]] feeling [[/underline]] of [[underline]] luxury [[/underline]] and [[underline]] happiness [[/underline]] when [[underline]] Celine [[/underline]] and [[underline]] myself [[/underline]] got our first