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JOGJAKARTA
(BECAK JAMS)
JAVA INDONESIA

+ I slipped off to dinner with a guy I'd met in Malaysia
(I like Guy, but it was time to get away from him awhile)
Iced mango juice esp. Good. Most impressive thing about
Jogja is lack of cars on main roads. Hordes of people,
bikes, becaks, +cycles. But hardly a car or even a bus.
At times the streets were like a swirling sea of hu-
amnity. It was some biannual festival or other.
The hoardes stopped for a RR crossing + afterwards,
chaos! I bought a Time Mag (Kissinger just
arranged Syria-Israel Settlement) + Looked around
for books on Sulawesi _ Buigis Ships. Found only
one photo - smaller than I'd thought, but beautiful,
doublemasted; each mast had two sails. After some
hours of negative thought re the ship, i'd turned
positive again. Guy's atlas showed favourable winds
in May-Nov from Celebes to the Aleutina, along a
route avoiding open ocean all along (i.e. south
China Sea, sea of Tapham, etc.) That's the NE monsoon,
of course, but the rain (fresh water) might feel
good on sailboat...I found mama's restaurant
(Very cheap+large portions; "mama" a friendly char-
acter). I'd hoped to meet Janet + Chris there but
they'd come and gone. This I learned an hour later,
back at hotel, where I met them just as all
of us were ready to collapse of exhaustion.

SUN JUNE 9 Chiming Church Bells reminded me
it was Sunday, Not Saturday. Guy_I borrowed 2