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down stream they built a large [[underline]] bamboo-raft, (probably similarly to the one used last year to pass the rapids of the Rio-Grande in Jamaica) [[/underline]] This raft is provided with a palm leaf shelter, a [[underline]] little cooking [[/underline]] stove and is guided by [[strikethrough]] 2 or 3 [[/strikethrough]] men provided with [[underline]] long bamboo poles. [[/underline]] Cooking is done on the raft, [[underline]] bathing is easy by the tin-pan slash method, [[/underline]] or a hollow Coconut. [[underline]] Fish is caught while drifting [[/underline]] down stream. Then at sunset, raft is fastened to the shore, and the [[underline]] Laos [[underline]] starts singing and playing their instruments. This is a very tempting voyage and I shall try to get more information about this This voyage would be particularly suitable when coming from 
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Singapore to Bangkok. and thus reach Indochine instead of from Hanoi or Saigon or Kep.
Another cabin passenger was a plump [[underline]] Malay - Eurasian woman [[/underline]] of about 33 who speaks French and better English and who travels with her [[underline]] little daughter [[/underline]] about 7 years old and who is a restless nuisance. The Malay woman has been a [[underline]] hospital nurse [[/underline]] during the war. [[strikethrough]] an [[/strikethrough]] My little cabin has electric light and fan. No bed sheets nor blankets needed! [[underline]] Except for that fish smell [[/underline]] the little boat is entirely acceptable and the food is good, cooked by Chinaman. [[underline]] Crew mostly all Chinese make better sailors than Ammanites or Malays [[strikethrough]] as a [[/strikethrough]] The latter do not seem to care for money [[/underline]] and will leave