The tradition on which this statement is based is to the effect that once a junk was blown out of its course in a storm and lay becalmed for a number of days. When the food supply began to run low, a Portuguese priest who was among the passengers, taught the crew that they could make bean sprouts by soaking peas, and so serve an adequate supply of food for a few days. During the interval, a breeze sprang up and carried the ship along again.
[a] “Under the guidance of the world-famous Salazar, … ” The first two sentences of this paragraph were omitted from the 1978 and 1998 reprints. – SB