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...steamship "Resolute", which the students re-join at Naples. Classes meet daily at sea in special rooms and on deck. During this semester students visit Greece, Palestine, Egypt, French Somaliland in East Africa, India, Ceylon, Prince of Wales Island, Malaya, Siam, the Straits Settlements, Java, Bali, Sulu, the Philippines, Formosa, China, Korea, Japan, the Hawaiian Islands, California, Panama, and Cuba...
...island of Bali, just east of Java, due south of Borneo, is owned by Holland but enjoys a rare domestic independence. The Dutch policy is Bali for the Balinese. With an extremely fertile soil, Bali raises and exports pigs, cattle, copra, coffee. Says Author Powell: the Balinese are furthermore the most artistic race in the world...
...There is in the language of Bali no word for art. There is no word for artist. A man is a stone carver, a wood carver, a painter, a goldsmith; that his work will be a striving for the beautiful is taken for granted. But charming though it be, Bali is no saccharine Utopia, monotonous with felicity. As in other tropic countries, milk and honey come in cans. There women grow old and shrink to hideous phantoms of themselves...
...book is illustrated with photographs by Andre Roosevelt, whom Mr. Powell, newspapermen, chummed with on Bali, drawings by Alexander King...
...island of Bali is a day's journey east of Java. Danseuse Page is the first white woman to study and reproduce the dances there...