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with long light black silk overshirts, slitted on both sides. I walk with [[underline]] Blaquieres [[/underline]] in one of the side-roads/ every [[underline]] Annamite salutes us [[/underline]] others [[underline]] bow [[\underline]] and [[strikethrough]] pull sh [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] fold both hands together [[/underline]] as a salutation.  [[underline]] Blaquiere [[/underline]] says it is [[underline]] my red-rosette [[/underline]] which does it. There is a village meeting in progress in one of the public gathering bungalows and our arrival stops proceedings.  [[underline]] Low bowing [[/underline]] everywhere. [[underline]] No soldiers, nor policemen [[/underline]] everything seems quiet peaceful, orderly and well behaved and the men show dignified politeness.  [[underline]] Women do [[/underline]]
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[[underline]] not salute. [[/underline]] Takes me to a village art school where young boys are at work; modelling clay wheel they burn in small and simple [[underline]] kilns [[/underline]] fired with hard-wood charcoal, others cast [[underline]] bronze pieces [[/underline]] from wax molds.  B. says aim is to revive their artistic taste of formerly according to their own lines 
Saw some excellent pottery and some good bronze castings. All this is [[underline]] incomparably more impressive [[/underline]] and shows far [[underline]] superior [[/underline]] culture [[underline]] than in Jamaica or Cuba or our Negro settlements.  Older culture and better race. [[/underline]] Men have [[underline]] kind expression [[/underline]] but look somewhat queer at first with their moustaches and [[strikethrough]] kn [[/strikethrough]] hair knotted into