""After all the excitement of our two African halts, and with two more weeks at sea....we settled down peacefully for the long journey across the Indian Ocean...to settle comfortably on the shady side of the deck, we now had to undo the two top buttons of our tropical shorts..." from 'To the Kwai - a" image: A portrait sketch of an overweight soldier wearing very tight shorts and a sola topi, sitting on a deck and leaning on a pole. He sits with one leg raised, his right arm resting on his knee, a cigarette in his right hand.