Word: sandakan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...houses were gone; sleazy palm-leaf shacks swayed in their places. The flies were thicker, the natives were thinner; only the charring equatorial heat was the same. Nevertheless, Harry and Agnes Keith were glad to be back. Before war and Japanese prison camps, the "dirty, stinking little town" of Sandakan, British North Borneo, was home...
Pyramid Intact. Author Keith (Land Below the Wind, Three Came Home) got her first peek at Sandakan as a young bride in 1934. Then she had felt the lure "of a country where elephants roamed free, fish flew . . . ladies wore evening dresses every evening, and I had no dishes to do, no clothes or babies to wash...
...conservative Sandakan, the social pyramid was still intact, with 25,000 Chinese, Malays, Indians and natives at the base, 80 Europeans at the top. The only revolutionary the Keiths had to keep tab on was little Georgie Keith, 7. To Mrs. Keith's dismay, he began spouting pidgin English: "Aw, Ma, dey all spik like dat!" "But that's not English you are talking. You must stop." "O.K., Mum. I no talk like dat any more...