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There are about [[underline]] a dozen such prisoners [[/underline]] working on the lawn and gardens of the Kep Bungalow. Some do mason work or carpentering others digging or picking with the axe. A [[underline]] marvelous view from terrace [[/underline]] over landscape and sea below. Once in awhile a passing cloud cuts it off. Had to stop [[strikethrough]] Apr [[/strikethrough]] on account of trouble with carburettor while going up so I went into the woods until trouble was located. [[underline]] Return trip rapid [[/underline]] and easy but in a short time it [[underline]] felt hot again in lower parts. [[/underline]] Back at [[strikethrough]] Kept I [[/strikethrough]] Kep before dark for dinner.
[[underline]] April 3. [[/underline]] In looking over the price-list of the large department Store in Saigon
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I find that best Mumm Champagne is offered at 3:40 [[underline]] piastres [[underline]] per liter, Vichy at 0.25, Cognac. 2.20, Beer 0.30 per liter or about half this in our money 
I read in an article [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] in [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] one of the Saigon paper a criticism of the administation of Indo-China which [[underline]] sounds familiar. [[/underline]] They object to a [[underline]] junketting trip to Japan and Hong Kong by a "commission" [[/underline]] where the members were allowed to take their wives along and where the trip had been planned to see the [[underline]] cherryblossoms [[/underline]] in bloom [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] etc. 
Kep is a small fishing port rather [[underline]] awkwardly situated. [[/underline]] There are all the time fishing Sampams