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A GUIDE FOR UNSOPHISTICATED TRAVELLERS

	The extreme of unsophistication that I have in mind is someone
who has learned English in a tribal school but who hasn't left his
tribal area.  Actually, in case the book should be translated,
I include descriptions of signs in English, but I'm doubt that
this would be enough to permit convenient travel by someone who
doesn't know English.  Maybe it would be helpful, however, to people
who know very little English.

	As you can see by the word ``unsophistication'' in the previous
paragraph, I am not trying to use a child's vocabulary.  However, I
hope much of this guide will be useful to people who know
a lot of what is in it, because through inexperience, still other
parts will be unknown.

	I hope also that people who know all this stuff, maybe even
better than I do, will find it interesting as a reminder of what we
all take for granted, and which I have tried not to take for granted.
For the fun of it, I'll imagine that the traveller may even be a
Martian and include some things about humans that every human knows.
It's too bad that there almost certainly aren't any Martians.  The
world would be much more interesting had some been discovered.

1. English is the most important language for travelling.  Every
country makes provision for people who don't speak the native
language unless the language is English.  Moreover, enough people
who speak only English travel in every country, so that the problems
of the English-speaking traveller have all been solved.  (Even the
crooks of every country have practiced swindling the English speaking
traveller.  Don't worry too much about crooks, except where you
get specific advice about it).  Some other languages are provided for
in some places, but unless a lot of people speaking only that language
come, there will be difficulties for them.  This doesn't mean that
everyone will speak English, but there will be enough English speakers
in airports, hotels, restaurants and other traveller's facilities, so
that an English speaker will get by.

	Some people think this is unfair, and that English speaker's
should learn other languages just as much as they have to learn
English.  Maybe so, but it's a great convenience that there is only
one international language, and it's the language that provides the
greatest number of travellers.

2.