ABSTRACT
After twelve days and nights of heat, and through three days and nights of huge waves, we arrived at Colombo and then, after another four days, at Sabang. At that time we felt as if we were already home. After four years, and newly arrived at Sabang, we ate gulai paku and rendang again having been met by a relative from Padang who had heard that we would be coming from Europe on that ship. Aah! How delicious is the food of one’s own people after so many years! Then we felt the truth of the saying: ‘If it rains gold abroad, and stones at home, it is still better at home’.
