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friend Connie 0*11*11. -°i^is, 
Besappa was a very pleasant Hindu, JS*/ Australian black cockatoos 
including two tame orangs three t. pirs, £ str^^ ? 
(very rpre; teither of us ho £ 2* e iL£j* ction Q f Victoria crowned 
~ -j hhon s a n ir of lions, a large coixeLuxuii t etc 
gibbons, a Pf£* r , .„ 00 n i eeonSi Palawan peacock pheasants, e^. 
pigeons ana New Guinea pigeons, 
4- ^rcr. to the Sea View Hotel for dinner. It 
In the evening we went over to the *e« ^ ^ t t 
is a lovely place on the oce.n, nu thought all sorts of kind 
and admired the silhouettes of palm., ^ & 
things about the tropics. 
Fphrnarv 27 - Singapore 
" . -it o^r.-nri c in the afternoon 
Spent the morning ^^?|S 1 ^,ffi 8 W I teS in my sun 
we both got our new cxothes from ™ e ^f ; out5ide . 
helmet end shorts, while the ran poureu u 
in the evening we went to the Swimming Club ^^^Skic^ 
Mr. and Mrs. Wagner were also there, we sexis blonde, very 
ana she is walking advertisement for ^s tr^ ja , ^ fomdg _ 
effective-looking, but very frank about the ™noer ^ ^ 
tion cream, face PJ^er, mascara, and hair ay ^ ^ doesn , t lQOk 
is. The funny part is that except iui 
artificial. 
^ Q n„h has the most beautiful swimming pool I have ever seen. 
The Club nas yne mo. u u . + Fcl 0 -r to dance. 
I wish we had been invited to swim instead o. 
February j g - Johore 
The Consul Gener*! an, •g^jff^^S^^S'. 
we drove over the causeway to Johore *duuu 
... r„^ Trri .prince - at the Zoo, about 
He met the Tungku Makota - th ^^oto prince ^ ^ 
which he is most enthusiastic. ^e nas a o barking deer, and kangaroos 
Nilghai, Sambar deer, .owe dew, £og ^er, ba«i * , lm?ely 
cranes and other biros ail in one ^vdSl's picture of the League of 
picture, end reminded us of Baron ^eydeli s p^ q ? male w h 
Nations. In a big cage, he has ^ J» 0 ™£ were several gibbons, and 
great cheek callosities. Mid in tne ^ treQ tQ tree> 
we got a thrill out of seeing our first w c 
, . , thp Tungku took us to the 
After we had admired the * n f £^^1 0 see the collection 
old Palace, where State dinners ore ££ L lxe > cted by hls father the 
of hunting and racing trophies th % ^e elephant tusks, end 
Sultan. ^here were many heads Of «ower, 6 f the Sultan 
other trophies of the hunt. _^ ali Q f which had been kilxed at 
surrounded by eight dead e^eph.nt., mounted by Roland lard, 
one time - in self defense. bev |"J .^f^n'the de?d animals were 
glared at us from ^ice of dishes and flatware, 
some of t e otner collections. J « a ± the throne room, with 
ceremonial robes, spe-r~, a " u V\ e iided chairs, 
tiger's heads on each arm of tne two big gu 
,„u-{ ^v. i c n new hne and furnished 
Later he took us to his house , which is - new on between 
modern style, where we met his wife and t*o J^thers.^ ^ £ ^ e 
the Tungku and the brother they call Boo at iu ^ . f ^ 
time. Both of them speak excellent ^6^ s ^ £n . fungk« speaks with 
looking at him, sounds exactly l^e an s n0 English at all. 
a slight accent. His wife, who is pure aiax<*y, 
