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Usage examples of palawan.

His force-five battleships, ten heavy cruisers, with light cruisers and destroyers-made a mighty parade as it plowed the blue swells of the Palawan Passage.

Cotabato, from Lanao, from Palawan, from Jolo, the Moros poured out their written protests.

He had ordered soup made of smoked oysters from Palawan Island, a second course of delicate butterfly fish fillets in a marvelous sauce of fresh coconut, a main course of breasts of chicken boiled in coconut milk, a salad of hearts of palm, a Spanish dessert called lecheflcm, which was a kind of custard swimming in caramel sauce, and thick, aromatic Batangas coffee.

Anyone with thoughts of summoning federal authorities to apprehend me upon arrival at SFO & expose my misdeeds & subject me to public disgrace & compulsory consciousness-raising workshops is advised to acquaint him or herself with the Shaftoes first & to at least remain open to possibility that Dad's martial prowess in combination with traditional feelings of psychotic protectiveness toward his female offspring, combined with Daughter's habit of carrying large Palawan stabbing weapon known as a kris, and Daughter's overall psychic fierceness & physical fitness & courage exceeding that of Yours Truly, mitigate any perceived power imbalance, particularly given that most of our interactions take place in settings which lend themselves admirably to discreet homicide & corpse disposal.

Then, if Bischoff has kept careful records of their speed and course, dead reckoning will tell them approximately where they are, and enable them to run down the Palawan Passage in the night, or to cut west across the South China Sea if that seems like a good idea.

The blade is that of a regular diving knife but the handle is that of a kris, an ornate traditional weapon of Palawan.

The divers show up, one or two each day, on speedboats or outrigger canoes from Palawan.