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Arithmetic, history and some elementary courses. - They also are [[underline]] astonished I should travel at my own expense [[/underline]] and [[underline]] not "aux frais de l'administration". [[/underline]] ^[[Most]] all these steamer lines, big and small in these countries are subsidized by their respective Governements [[strikethrough]] unless they are and [[/strikethrough]] ^[[but]] we in the U.S [[strikethrough]] make [[/strikethrough]] imagine that the Shipping Board subsidies are an exception. The college boys were polite well behaved; eagerly interested to hear of [[underline]] New York [[/underline]] and the U.S. They tell me the lowest temperature in Mytho in winter is 22°C [[underline]] (66°F [[/underline]]  Everywhere I see [[underline]] water Buffalo, [[/underline]] which is the standard cattle They look gray and muddy and like to wade or wallow
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in the mud or the river. Cultivated land alternates with patches of jungle. - [[underline]] Cambodia [[/underline]] is [[underline]] much wilder and less settled. [[/underline]] Along the water edge, white and grayish blue cranes, and other birds some of beautiful plumage. King-fisher with exceptionally beautiful light blue feathers. - which are worked by chinese or annamites [[underline]] into ornaments, [[/underline]] in combination with [[underline]] gold, [[strikethrough]] or [[/strikethrough]] silver [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] settings [[/strikethrough]] or brass settings and which [[strikethrough]] appear [[/strikethrough]] look like blue enamel Temperature in my cabin = 86°F. The sails here [[strikethrough]] are fa [[/strikethrough]] are the simplest fore and aft type I have seen and probably the origin of that type. They have no jawed gaff but instead a [[underline]] yard much longer than the mast [[/underline]] and this yard which carries its