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other over enormous distances. Sleeping in shelters or [[underline]] bonzeries [[/underline]] specially erected for them. Begging their rice and food in the morning which is given to them by the devout people 
Some travel [[strikethrough]] from [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] thru Siam Cambodge, Indochina and Burmah. [[/underline]] They write into the palm leaf with a fine point then fill the marking by rubbing it with a black paste; One of my sheets (translated] reads: "The man who can "not read nor write is like "a blind man who tries to "find his way in a path "thru the dense woods." I am taking it home. 
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I gave him some cigarettes which he gladly accepted. They drink no alcohol, cannot buy nor sell, they can give or receive, have made
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a vow of celibacy, and do not eat any meal in evening. Anybody can enter the order, or leave it if he decides to do so.
Afternoon went out on [[underline]] an elephant; a Cambodgian [[/underline]] sat on his head, armed with a bamboo with hook and peak, but did not have to use it. [[underline]] Elephant has a swinging motion [[/underline]] decidedly different from that of [[underline]] Camel [[/underline]] and does not make noise as Camels do. Slow and [[underline]] deliberate, specially [[/underline]] going up hill or turning a winding corner on a hilly road. Driver steers by touching big swinging ears [[underline]] with his bare feet, [[/underline]] also carries a flat bone horizontally fastened [[underline]] under tail [[/underline]] and guided by two ropes [[strikethrough]] l [[/strikethrough]] which he can thus use as an [[underline]] accelerator [[/underline]]