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me [[underline]] fog issue to occur [[/underline]] at night and most of the time [[strikethrough]] at do [[/strikethrough]] during day Height is 1000 meters and [[underline]] road about 35 kilometers [[/underline]] Rainey season is about to begin. [[underline]] Best months [[/underline]] here are [[underline]] October, November December, January & February [[/underline]] when it is coolest. On top of mountain a hotel has been built recently opened called [[underline]] Bockor Palace Hotel, [[/underline]] also a Bungalow for Resident Superieur. Vegetation somewhat stunted on top. Small dwarf pines appear. [[underline]] Air much cooler, [[/underline]] need my coat There is a smaller hotel and Bungalow short distance below. The [[underline]] manager [[/underline]] of the [[underline]] hotel Palace [[/underline]] is Mr. [[underline]] Joannot [[/underline]] a Swiss from Lausanne who expected me. There
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are a few [[underline]] French fonctionaires [[/underline]] there with their family and small children respectary. [[strikethrough]] As it [[/strikethrough]] Took my lunch there. Gardens and terraces are being prepared by burning the forest. Hundreds of prisoners are doing all this. Cambodgians in every kind of old clothes [[underline]] under a few armed Ammanite [[/underline]] or Cambodgian [[underline]] guards [[/underline]] in kaki and provided with rifle but [[underline]] barefooted. [[/underline]] Prisoners do not work hard and guards joke and banter with them They tell me the prisoners are "pirates" by which they mean robber bands who rob farms. Their work is certainly easy going and reminds me of the easy going work of some of the New York Street cleaners. They are also the [[underline]] men who built the roads. [[/underline]]