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Show 1 PAPERMAKIN IN SIA communication between Singapore and Bangkok, th connecting train runs but twice a week The train that departed from the modern Singapor station on Sunday morning, April seventh, 1935, foun me amon the seven Occidental passengers. Again, no being a normal person,I preferred to travel sccond clas rather than in the long grey first class carriage in whic were seated two of the perspiring white passengers. Thes two gentlemen were the usual British tourists with thei khaki shorts, tropical cork helmets,and superior swagge which the British seem to cultivate while travelling i their outlying possessions. I travelled sccond class be cause I have the fecling that more can be learned abou a strange country and its people by associating with th natives themselves, than by being confined in a first clas compartment, forced to listen to the tiresome criticism of overbearing Occidentals; for no matter how lowly o submissive a white person may be in his own country h seems automatically to assume a domineering attitud and manner while in the Orient The railway is narrow gauge and the cars narrow t correspond, the seats are covered with a slippery ratta and slant somewhat forward, which gives the traveller distinct fecling of insecurity, as he may at any momen be precipitated to the floor. But with over a thousan miles of strange and unfamilar jungles and desert ahead Digital image 2004 Marriott Library, University of Utah. All ights reserved |