Horace A Bass (APD 124) - Naval Cruise Book

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Back to Subio then we went For two long weeks, the most we'd spent And time enough at last for each Iv have e. swim out at the beach. The beer was cold, the sun was hot. Yes, Subtle is a. pleasant spot, in P Q-.1 hilt I una, it-K 'Ui -Q

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1' At Klong To:l.'s wharf we tempted the Fates. To visitors all we opened the gates. By thousands they came. What s chatter At scuttlebutts pouring endless water. Pretty girls with trinkets Niello, Buddhist priests in saffron yellow. Parties, dancing, shopping, too, Everything to us was nel. Four days isn't long enough To see the sights, buy all the stuff That we would like totake away So 1et's return another day. r 509: 523 . a L. -,Q As, Q 4. f v x , 1- . n , we-. ' s g fly Q .g is Q 1 I 5 ye

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hen Hong Kong bound, a stormy trip, esumed our job as station ship. nd? before we were inspected o ascertain if wefd neglected o keep our records, paint the deck hine our shoes and scrub our necks :Lx reeks in Hong Kong all alone, hile the British Fleet was gone o Subclc on the operations For which we handled publications. Then came the BOXER from Japan lith ANDERSON and one more can. The streets were crowded then with blue As sailors swarmed as sailors do, To see the sights, buy brric-a-bras, And trinkets which they'll carry back Then later came the FLORIKLN Lnd SELDG3 also from J aoan, To spend a week and go ashore To buy up Oriental lore.