Hi Roland Thanks for your comments. I am sure there must be something written in the specific area that interests you and I hope Cliff Pereira will throw some light on that area.
I have just read Melvyn's great account of his Indian Ocean crossings. Because the European food was so bland in second class, we always had some mango pickle and prawn balchao with us as appetisers! But Mr Lourenco's Goan food available mainly to third class passengers was outstandingly good. Apart from the S S Kampala and S S Uganda there were two other sister ships, the Aronda and the Amra, which did the trip regularly. Some also sailed to and from Beira and Lourenco Marques in the then Portuguese East Africa. The other stops included Zanzibar, Tanga and Dar es Salaam and even Aden at times. Mervyn is right that we definitely didn't realise then how priviledged some of us were when making the adventerous sailings and seeing the Seychelles for free! Likewise, the cruises around Lake Victoria taking about six days and touching several ports are worth writing about sometime. Finally, the ships like the Kenya which sailed from Cape Town to London via the Suez invariably had excellent professional Goan dance bands on board. We often got them to play at the Goan Institute in Mombasa on their two or three day stop. One outstanding band was led by Ferdie on piano (I regret I can't recall his surname) and I think I still have recordings I had made of that group. I understand from Goanetter Tony Barros that, Ferdie now plays in Toronto, Canada. Cornel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roland Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 6:38 AM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Of Goans killed on the 'Tilawa' by a submarine inWorldWar II > Thanks Cornel for that post. > I wonder if any book or books have been written on the Goan involvement in > World World II. There was quite some involvement on the military side with > a few Goans having held King's Commissions in HM's > armed forces and seen action in the Singapore defeat and the Burma > campaign. The Goan civilian participation in the war would have been much > more extensive as numerous Goans held high administrative positions in the > colonial realm that would have inevitably resulted in exposure to the > actions of the War. _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org