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baniels, [[/underlined]] bare hair loose on shoulder; then [[strikethrough]] brown [[/strikethrough]] dark brown glistening naked body barely covered with Sarong, or loin cloth Bright robed [[underlined]] Indian women, silver [[/underlined]] rings in nose and [[/underlined]] ear [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] ankles [[/underlined]] Some almost naked Carried [[underlined]] children. [[/underlined]] wearing dozens of [[underlined]] silver rings [[/underlined]] in [[underlined]] ears [[/underlined]] thru as many perforations: [[underlined]] More variety of [[?]] [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] men [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] women than I have ever seen before in one same town. Jews [[/underlined]] of the Levant, and [[underlined]] Turks, [[underlined]] and fezzes and men as one sees in [[underlined]] Cairo [[/underlined]] or [[underlined]] Egypt. [[/underlined]] The [[underlined]] Malays quiet [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] smallish [[/underlined]] were a little cylindrical black [[underlined]] fez, folded [[/underlined]] on top as to make a little gap, similar as Canadians wear their
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fur caps. [[underlined]] Chinese [[/underlined]] over whelmingly in majority. same crowding, same stench same dried fish, and open air restaurants. See [[underlined]] very few Japanese. [[/underlined]] If they are around they certainly are not very obvious. [[underlined]] Chinese [[/underlined]] do everything are amongst the [[underlined]] poorest [[/underlined]] and also the very [[underlined]] richest [[/underlined]] inhabitants here; own rubber plantations tin mines etc. richer than some whites. [[underlined]] Sikh [[/underlined]] regiment [[underlined]] drilling. - tall and picturesque. [[/underlined]] Before my room pretty lawn. large, and beyond the picturesque anchorage and sea view with distant Islands far off. Gentle lawn before Hotel several tennis matches going on a very pretty picture.
This evening captain [[underlined]] Alling [[/underlined]] invited us all to the fare.