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them all they want. They are [[underline]] not greedy nor quarrelsome. Men and women all work. [[/underline]] It is [[underline]] difficult to make them work for money [[/underline]]. Hence [[underline]] almost all trade is in hands of  Chinamen and Annamites. [[/underline]] So are the [[underline]] waiters and workers mostly Chinese or Annamites. Cambodgians are rather retiring towards [[/underline]] the latter. [[underline]] De Byserͯ   tells me Cambodgians are very honest [[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] will not work [[/underline]] 
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ͯ Director of the Hotel at Ankor Watt 
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He says [[underline]] Chinese and Annamites work but are tricky and are born gamblers! [[/underline]] Will gamble away anything as long as they possess anything 
Says that some time ago he got some special new white uniforms made for
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[[vertical annotation in left margin]] Cambodgians [[/vertical annotation]]
his help with instructions to wear them while serving 
After awhile some appeared without their uniform, then others; until he found out they had gambled them away. Is compelled to pay them 10 or 14 days late otherwise they gamble and gamble and do not return until they have lost all their money. 
^[[Mr]] Blaquieres warned me [[underline]] not to tip my chauffeur until the very end [[/underline]] of the voyage, otherwise I should expose myself to be deserted by my chauffeur or see him start gambling until he had gambled away his money, his clothes, his tires and his gasoline. I heard this confirmed by others. [[underline]] De Byser [[/underline]] tells me he sees the Cambodgians withdrawing slowly from