A salmagundi of sweet tempered Malaysians, Chinese, Indians, Indonesians and Aborigines, with their own religions, living analogously. Served on skewers. Coffee follows and is thick and strong in large cups with tinned condensed milk. Ashtrays are filled with water, to prevent ash flying from the swirling fan. A constant shower of rain.
Ladies come into view with multi coloured, spinning, waxen umbrellas.
A wedding in Penang. The jungle soon impinges as we leave Malacca. A voracious growth of netted strangling creepers, with random villages, called 'kampongs'. Through the clearing, cream oxen and water buffalo are set against the background of verdurous muted shades of banana trees and giant ferns. Coconut palms foster the stilted, wooden huts, with neat small gardens, where there are tubs of orchids, fixed onto wooden pillars.