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    Gladys Blair, Aunt Gladys andMartha, October 1978.

    Back row: Jane and Si, Jamesand Rick, Paul and Martha;Aunt Gladys, Nancy, Bobbye;Saul, Danny, Laura; and Matt.

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    Martha, Phronzie Riley and Paul at 1978Christmas party at home of Al Samaniego.

    Martha, Phronzie, Paul, David Shipps, LouiseRushing and unknown lady at Christmas party.

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    Al Samaniego, John Riley andPaul, at the party.Roxie Turner and Maxine Shipps at thesame Christmas party.

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    The wonderful "kids" of Incredible Charlies in Dallas, enjoyed many times,but forced to close in 1978.

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    Beyondcarefreeniany doub t the M.S. Sagaf jord of fers you the wo r ld. I t 's a di f ferent w or ld : debonair , sophist icated,, fascinat ing. From Panama to Suez, Cartagena to Colom bo, yo u do the cruis ing and we ' l l pamper yo u for 84shts on the Great Wor ld Cruise. You wi l l v is i t 27 ports of inf in te var iety: on-beat , of f -beat , cosmop ol i tan or qua int .Subject to approva l f rom the People's Repu bl ic of Chin a we have scheduled a catWesterr L eyes. The re wi l l be plenty of t ime in H ong K ong before sai l ing to

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    [ at Shanghai, long shielded f romMan ila, Kota Kina balu ( form erly Jesselton),cal l at Haifa ( for T el Aviv) . Sti l l , there is Greeceand I taly. Gibraltar an d Nor th Afr ica . Al l i n al l you cruise more than 26,000 miles on board the M.S. Sagaf jord.s an unbeatable com binat ion . Surely the Great Wor ld Cruise iexcitement and

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    1979 Port Everglades. Embarkation 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.,6 p.m. sai l ing" " " * *H av an a, Cuba. 9 a .m. to 5 p .m.- At Sea At Sea " Cartagena, Colombia. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.Cristobal, Canal Zone. 6 a.m. to 7 a.m.Panama Canal, (passing)Balboa, Canal Zone. 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.- At Sea - At Sea - A t Sea -Acapuico , Mexico. 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.- At Sea -- A t Sea -- At Sea -Los Angeles, Cali fornia, U.S.A. 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.(Embarkation from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. forpassengers beginning the cruise in Los Angeles.) At Sea - At Sea -- At Sea -- A t Sea Honolulu, Hawaii. 6 p.m. (arr ive)Honolulu. 6 p.m. (depart)- At Sea - At Sea - At Sea - At Sea -- A t Sea - At Sea -- At Sea - At Sea Yokohama, Japan. 6 p.m. (arr ive)Yokohama. 6 p.m. (depart)Kobe, Japan. 6 p.m. (arr ive)Kobe. 6 p.m. (depart)_ ^ - A t S e a -Shanghai, People's R epublic of China. 6 p.m. (arrive)Shangha i .Shanghai.Shanghai. 6 p.m. (depart)- A t Sea -Hong Kong, B.C.C. 6 p.m. (arrive)Hong Kong.Hong Kong.Hong Kong. 6 p.m. (depart)- At Sea

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    ActivityManila, Phil ippines. 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.- At Sea "" " 'Kota Kinabalu, Sabah 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.- At Sea Singapore. 9 a.m. (arr ive)_ _ Singapore. 1 p.m. (depart)^ ^ * Penang, Malaysia. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.- At Sea - A t Sea - A t Sea Colombo , Sri Lanka. 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.- A t Sea Goa, India. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.Bombay, India. 8 a.m. (arr ive)Bombay. 6 p.m. (depart)- A t Sea - A t Sea - At Sea - Aden, People's Democrat ic Rep. of Yemen.1 p.m. to 7 p.m.- A t Sea - At Sea -'-"" Safaga, Egypt. 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.Suez, Egypt, midnight (arr ive)Suez. 6 a.m. (depart)Suez Canal, (passing)Port Said, Egypt. 7 p.m. (arrive)Port Said, Egypt. 7 p.m. (depa rt)Haifa, Israel. 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.- A t Sea - At Sea - A t Sea ' Genoa, I taly. 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.- At Sea - Malaga. 2 p.m. to 11 p.m.Gibraltar. 8 a.m. to noon.

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    mmmmAnne Russell, of Dolge-ville, N.Y., our stewardess. . .very sweet andcapable.Table companions at Table 18, for most of the cruise: SeoffreyWatlins, Victor Knight, Mike Mooney (headwaiter); Lilyan Perrin,Linda Knight, Paul and Martha. All English but Paul and Martha.

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    Sister ship of the Sagafjord, the Vistafjord,at Port Lauderdale. The first port of our cruise, MontegoBay, Jamaica, produced this lady whowanted to pose with u s, for a fee.

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    An old friend, the Queen Elizabeth II, start-ing her 1979 World Cruise, the same as us. And willing to pose, without a fee, isthis unwilling vendor of posies.

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    A calipso dancing team entertained us on board theSagafjord, from Jamaica. This dance shocked some ofthe ladies, so when they left, we got better seats.

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    The Saga dining room on the Sagafjord, whichserved all passengers in one sitting; a bigspectacular room with beautiful ceiling.Shuffleboard court, very popular with pass-engers with individual play and tournaments,Looking aft to pool and stern.

    Chorus line of crew members (poor picture),made up of stewardesses, manicurists, etc.One of several presentations on the trip.Indoor pool on C deck, with wildly imagin-ative mural on wall of glass and plastic.Also had sauna and massage here.

    JSight view of the pool and the veranda cafewhere there was a nightly buffet at 11:00.:ve is the sun deck .Peggy Daugherty, Mike Mooney (headwaiter),and Dick Daugherty, who had table next toours in dining room, and were special to us.

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    Cartagena, Colombia, is dominated by the oldfortress, San Felipe. Seen in January 1979. Closeup of part of the San Felipe Fortress.The thick walls are honeycombed with tunnels.

    Big flower decoration at a main intersectionin Cartagena.

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    Model of old Spanish galleon at Cartagena,full size. Wall at San Felipe Portress with countlessfcullet holes where prisoners were executed.

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    Native dancers performing on board the Sagafjord onthe evening we departed. Exquisite costumes andperformance.

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    Gaudy bus, one of many in Colombia, a localcustom. Outdoor cafes where you can stroll and selectyour menu, and dicker for the price.

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    The Sagafjord going thru the Panama Canal, with two"mules" pulling and guiding her thru the narrowlocks.

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    [A tower at ruined Old Panama,a city founded in 1519 anddestroyed by the English pirateHenry Morgan in 1671.Electric "mules" traversingone of many slopes in canal,leading up to another lock.

    Statue of Vasco Nunez deBalboa, in old Panama. NewPanama is about as Americanas Dallas.

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    The Del Lago restaurant in Mexico City, very elegant, and I wish it was sitting in Port Worth. Thebest meal we had off the ship on the entire cruise.

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    Impressive church on the main plaza in Mexico City. Close view of intricate scrolls and figureson the church pictured at left.

    dmcaaurtwEntire building at University of Mexico, donewith millions of tiny tiles, hand inserted.

    Three-dimensional tiles on wall of buildingat the University of Mexico in Mexico City.

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    Supposed to be a beer-guzzling donkey, butfor economy's sake suspect it was only sugarwater. Drank every half hour for the tourists,

    Ruins of a big city at Teotihuacan, nearMexico City. Resembles those at Pompeii.Was a very advanced civilization.

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    Pyramid of the Moon at Teotihuacan, pre-Aztec. Not far out of Mexico City, andvery impressive.

    Closeup of some of the walls in the ruinspictured above. Tiny rocks were embeddedin the mortar, resembling raisins.

    A poor picture, but a beauty of a subwayin Mexico City. Spotlessly clean, withshops and pictures making it interesting.

    I SThe Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan, thelargest there, and 215 feet high. Was usldfor sacrifices by the race that built it?

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    Breaking yards in Los Angeles harborwith oldships being ripped apart, including a coupleof old destroyersand the scrap sent to Japan,Unique houses on stilts on the island of Oahua few miles out of Honolulu. Magnificent viewof the ocean.

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    The Sagafjord from the Aloha Tower in Hawaii,The Veranda deck by the pool, above that theSun deck, and then shuffleboard court.Part of the wild, windy coast of Hawaii, whichresembles the coast of California north ofLos Angeles, along Route 1.

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    Japanese sailing ship, one of a pair at Haw-aii's Aloha Tower...presumably used by theJapanese navy as training vessels.Partially mechanized pineapple picking, withpeople walking down the rows, picking thefruit, and placing on a conveyor belt. Ouch!

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    One of the popular crew shows during the cruise,with waiters, deck stewards and other crew memberssinging and dancing.

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    Yokohama's reception committee on board theship, presenting flowers, gifts and affectionon the Sagafjord's captain, here in civvies.

    The decks of the Hikawa Maru, which was a Jap-anses hospital ship during the war, and thusspared. J^^m

    Also part of Yokohama's reception committeeis this "western" band, singing country western Japanese style.Old Japanese passenger ship, "Hikawa Maru,"anchored at Kobe, in service from 1930 toI960. Japanese version of the Queen Mary.

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    iA symbol of Japanese industrialization is thisfull-size tractor atop a pole in the outskirtsTokyo.

    On board the Hikawa Maru, Lil Perrin in thewheel house. Payment of a small fee entitlesone to wander around at will.

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    Typical communal houses in China, in a communeoutside Shanghai. Some streams are fish farms. Wouldn't that be a fun job all day...makingexcelsior out of boards?

    Healthy looking cattle, of which our hosts werequite proud. Heavily laden bikes on the way to the citywith produce to feed the teeming millions.

    ':T~This youngster obviously is reluctant to posefor the funny looking foreigners. inside a chicken house in the commune. Veryneat and clean.

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    A corner of a communal kitchen, where chosen members of the grouptake their meals. Didn't see the dining room, but presume it ison the order of army messes, with long tables and benches. Thestaples are fish and rice, with a little pork and chicken to makeliving fun.

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    tiVery common in China are these little one-lungtractors that can be used in the fields, hookedto wagons, and even pulling flat-bed trailersteeming with passengers.

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    We saw propoganda pictures of Chinese fields teeming with tractorsand machinery, but in reality most of the work is still done verylaboriously by hand, as by these two ladies. They do not necessarily work in the fields all day, but have other jobs, and take turnsat the menial jobs.

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    There seems to be no way to weave mats but tokneel down and do it. Imagine the young manhas king-size callouses on his knees.This young man operates a crude planing machinethat smoothes the insides of barrels. At leastit's got an electric motor.

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    Brass plaque on bridge of the Sagafjord, equi-valent to cornerstone on a building. The captain on the left and assistant on thebridge deck as the ship backs out of port.

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    Activity in the bow of the ship as crewmenprepare to throw their lines ashore. Part of the bridge controls of the Sagafjordwhich assist in complex task of running ship,

    Familiar sight to us, as we lay back in our Another part of the bridge, manned all hours,deck chairs and stared endlessly at the sea. with the men guiding the ship.

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    Kong KongI Perhaps the most intriguing city on earth. Here is oneof many market streets, with no vehicle traffic, and the centertaken up wholly by individual merchants patiently enduring heat,cold, rain and rotting fruit, fish or whatever they're selling.A thin canvas or plastic cover the only protection from the ele-ments. They wisely utilize bridges and overpasses for roofs also.

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    A vanishing breed, the ricksha man in Hong Kong. Long banished inChina itself because it degrades the working man, a few still hope-fully' hang around the Star Ferry terminal, waiting for a foreignerto take a ride, or more often, a few pennies for posing for a pic-ture. Tourists are warned against them, that they will settle forone price and charge another, and will get one lost, then an exorbit-ant fee for getting to the proper destination. So are self destructing

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    ''The Jumbo Floating Restaurant at Aberdeen, out of HongKong. With the menu for the evening below. We had achoice of chop sticks or forks. The waiter brought eachbig dish, then served it individually into our plates.

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    A tapestry aboard the Jumbo Restaurant, itssize can be gauged by the lady at the bottom.

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    had two evenings in Hong Kong of the same entertainment, by thesame troupe. The first on board ship in the ballroom, and the secondat the Oceania Restaurant & Night Club on the pier, just a few hun-dred feet from the ship. V/as beautiful and wish could see every night,

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    More acts from the OceaniaNight Club. In addition tothe dancers had a 10-pieceorchestra.

    Elaborate bridal scene In Hong Kong night onboard ship, where the bride turned out to be"Lil," our little English table companion.

    The modern side of Hong Kong, with dozensmore high rises going up. Dimly seen acrossto the mainland are the "Canberra."

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    Our old love, the "Canberra," much biggerthan the Sagafjord, seen and visited in HongKong. Spic and span, just like new.

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    Cheap labor was hired to give theship a quick once-over paint jobin Hong Kong. Just perched on6" boards all day, with no nets.

    Some of the most crowded acreson earth, downtown Hong Kong.

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    Grovernment housing in Hong Kong...one of hundreds put up to care for refugees from China.

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    Diesel junk, one of many harbor cruises inHong Kong, that we took on two-hour cruise.

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    The gleaming kitchens and storerooms of the Sagafjord, where Paul andMartha were given a private guided tour. Feeding some 700 people threemeals a day was accomplished superbly.

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    Beautifully dressed Filipino maidens welcomeus to Manila, with presents for the captain.Small Filipino ship used presumably tocarry inter-island passengers.

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    Also on hand to welcome the Sagafjord toManila was this marching band, playingSouza marches familiar the world over.Modified outrigger canoe (with outriggeron other side, with outboard motor, andused as water taxi in Manila harbor.

    Just off the gangplank native venders displayall their goodies. This was common in manyports, and we had to"run the gauntlet.Filipino style beggers asking for handout from passengers. With a couple ofrent=a=kids, would accept anything.

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    mFamous bamboo organ in Manila, play-ed on the occasion of our visit bya young man. Out of use for 100years, it was rebuilt and has goodtone from its bamboo pipes.

    Could be a freeway anywhere, but rathersurprising to find one so modern andgood leading into Manila,

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    Taal, the lowest volcano in the world, atTagaytay, outside Manila, an extremelybeautiful sight in the center of its lake.*'VJV

    Martha with Filipino beauties at Tagaytay,extremely friendly and probably hired tobeautify the premises, which they did well.

    Guest house at Tagaytay, overlooking the vol-cano, and a nice place to spend a short vaca-tion if in that part of the world.

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    At no place else in the world are the picturesque "Jeepneys," such as theyhave in the Phillipines. Modified surplus jeeps after World War *II were theonly transportation, and the natives soon improvised colorful improvementsand additions to them, including lengthening. Pictured above is a Jeepneyfactory, one of many, that manufactures them from the ground up, hand-madeand each differently trimmed. Mostly use rebuilt Japanese motors in them.

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    Part of our welcome to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah,Malaysia...formerly known as North Borneo,and suppose this is one of the wild men.

    Beautiful garden in a park in Sabah, withChinese women seen policing up the area.They wear distinctive hats and also cutgrass along the highways.

    Gaudy state mosque of Malaysia,modernized and with oodles ofgold leaf.

    Peaceful scene in Kota Kinabalu of the citypark, beach and ocean.

    Native carriage seen behind taxi, probablyjust a tourist gimmick, but picturesque.

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    Two pictures above are of theTiger Balm Gardens in Singapore.Dozens of scenes from Chinesemythology, many gory in detailsof how the bad are punished andthe goad are rewarded. Endowed bya wealthy Chinaman who owns theTiger Balm company, the Chineseequivalent of Lydia E. Pinkham.

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    Bloody scene in one Tiger Balm Gardenexhibit, with a sinner being disembow-led.

    The downtown skyline of Singapore, reportedlynow the cleanest city on earth, and growingby great strides.

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    The Singapore version of McDonald's...order it,grab it, and run...with a minimum overhead.

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    Gigantic oil tanker seen off Singapore,loaded deep in the water.

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    Famed Raffles Hotel in Singapore,perhaps a bit seedy besides somemodern ones, but still goingstrong and evidently profitable.

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    ISingapore's thieves market, where almostanything in the world can be bought...except panty hose for Martha.

    Modern containers and cranes at Singaporecan unload and reload a ship in less than24 hours.

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    Grove of rubber trees, planted in rows andvisited early every morning to cut a verynarrow strip off the angled groove, whichthen "bleeds" into the cup pictured at theleft. It is not the sap of the tree, butfrom the bark.

    The birth of rubber. Latexdripping in a cup that is em-ptied every day, at a rubberplantation in Malaysia, acrossthe Johore Straits from Singa-pore,

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    Little Malay children, interested spectatorsof the peculiar foreigners on their planta-tion.

    Malay climbing a cocoanut palmto obtain "toddy," a drinkfrom the fruit of the palm,which he got in his danglingcan. When tried, all wecould say was "uugh."

    As the plantation is far from a city, workerslive in these houses in the company town,complete with little stores. r\

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    On the rubber plantation in Johore, the latex is brought by old beat-uptrucks to this factory, which processes it into sole crepe rubber forexport, the largest such factory in the world, amidst the rubber trees.

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    nmijAt Johore while visiting a rubber plantation and an oil-palm plantation,we were served a fine Malaysian lunch in the above pavilion on the plantation. Curries, and/or prawns, chicken, beef and lamb, plus other dishesand fruits; and a delicious thick concoction of different fruits mixed together in a fruit punch, which we couldn't resist, and drank half a dozen,

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    An oil palm plantation in Jahore is also visited, with the fruits of thepalm trees in upper left picture. The fruits are cut, placed in the slingby the side of the road, and picked up by trucks and taken to the factoryon the plantation, to be processed the same day. This oil is the base formargarine, soap, cosmetics, etc., and very much in demand. The workerslive in the neat cottages on the plantation.

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    Abu Bakar Mosque in Malaysia, across fromSingapore. Very, very beautiful.

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    Pulpit of the Abu Bakar Mosque,heavy with gilt and bronze.

    Interior of the mosque, with a few worship-pers in attendance.

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    New rural suburb in Johore, not yet occupiedby the workers intended for. A busy, progres-sive place, rich in natural resources.

    Palace in Malaysia overlooking the JohoreStraits and Singapore in the distance. Butis a different country from Singapore, withelaborate entry procedures.

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    Franz and his merry men entertaining us atdinner on a special night. He's in the yellowcoat, a very fine violinist, and musical director of the ship. He was also on the Kungs-holm on our voyage in 1977.

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    The Sagafjord, all 24,000 tons of her...a verybeautiful and hospitable ship.

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    The Sun deck on the Sagaf jord, filled- with tanand red bodies on bright days. Many peonlespent all day out here, except for meals.

    Above the bridge, on top of theship, a favorite spot for Pauland mostly crew members.

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    Just one view of the ship, withlife rafts in canisters, in addition to the lifeboats.

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    Houses on stilts above the mud flats on Penang. Slums Malaysian style.

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    Modern American-style hotel just built onPenang, luring more tourists.

    Srim reminder of World War II...a dugout onPenang, probably built by the Japanese, asthey had a very harsh occupation here.Hard to make out, but a bus similar to oursdown a gully on Penang, and a wrecker calledto pull it out also overturned down there.

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    Boa, India, has this beautiful Catholicchurch at the head of the main drag. Still much in use, these patient bullockswait while their owner has a quick *un.

    Native taxi on Goa holds three natives inback, but two big-reared Americans. A steady stream of motorized barges bringmanganese out to waiting ships.

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    Train on the docks at Groa, loading manganese into waiting ships. Many outriggers are still in use on theisland, and they were being built nearby,

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