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id: 8678
author: Leonowens, Anna Harriette
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  His Majesty, Somdetch P''hra Paramendr Maha Mongkut, the Supreme King of [Illustration: Fac-Simile of Letter from present Supreme King of Siam: the bed of the Meinam by the king P''hra Chow Phra-sat-thong, as a work playhouse is within the palace grounds of his Royal Highness Prince Krom Princes of the blood royal were for a long time engaged, brother first or supreme king of Siam, had just died, leaving this prince, Siam; and so, one morning, came the slow but welcome news that the king expressed his surprise, saying, "Siamese lady no like work; love play, the mother of a royal prince of Siam, her feet covered with a silk Mongkut, the reigning Supreme King of Siam, intimating the recent death A Siamese king may have two queens at the same time; in which case the watts, with idols and priests; palaces, with kings, queens, concubines,

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  The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok


id: 48111
author: Young, Ernest
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  small hours of the morning, the busy streets of Siam''s capital present way effective, by this time the present generation of children should getting home in time for meals; lie down in shady places to rest; collected a large number they place them, two at a time, in small jars priesthood, the ceremony takes place a year or so before the time when may be seen at times round the palace or city walls, serving a similar third time, placing his head on a cushion on the floor of the dais. But not many years ago the present king ordered a new issue of villages on the coast at times when boats cannot pass from place to presenting their gifts to the priests, the people hold a great aquatic custom, the King, taking a princely offering of priests'' time, in Buddha''s day, the custom was for the priests to

title:
  The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe Being Sketches of the Domestic and Religious Rites and Ceremonies of the Siamese


id: 43908
title: Our Little Siamese Cousin
author: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard
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  Chin''s father built the house, or the boat, just before he was married. When Chin is in the house during the day, he spends most of his time in he was a little boy, an English lady was his teacher for a long time, showing her love,--gentle little Chie Lo. Chin didn''t laugh, of course. When Chin grew a little older there would be a great celebration "But I love to hear you tell these stories, Chin. But people who stop to-day to buy from the little girl will not As for Chie Lo, what would she do when Chin went away from home? "I AM going to the city to-day to buy a new waist-cloth," said Chin''s "Father, look quickly," said Chin. "I HAVE had a lovely time to-day, too," said Chie Lo, when Chin had Chin had helped his father mend the roof of the little home. =THE LITTLE COLONEL GOOD TIMES BOOK=


id: 44564
author: Turpin, F. H. (François Henri)
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  spare the lives of the King and his wife and children who were ordered The Siamese army commanded by the son of the King, (who was known as King enfeebled by debauchery was in danger of death, but his son, the In order to slight the priests, the King made as though to favour until the King of Siam had been converted to Christianity and to work made an attempt on his life, in order to place the King''s younger who come to Siam to serve the King, refuse to obey his commands. faith the King sent his two sons who had been at court up to that time your God, your King, and your country and be sure that your deaths death that the Crown Prince really became King. The Burmese King, having seized all the shipping and wealth of the gold, but the King of Siam had taken the precaution of having this

title:
  History of the Kingdom of Siam and of the revolutions that have caused the overthrow of the empire, up to A. D. 1770


id: 44680
title: Jungle and Stream; Or, The Adventures of Two Boys in Siam
author: Fenn, George Manville
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  "Yes, father," said Harry, whose brain was full of the great reptile; "Yes, I said so, father; but I should like Sree to tell me." "Come along, Phra," said Harry. "Oh, I see," said Harry, who whispered to his father and then to Phra, "Yes, Sahib; I know," said the hunter, and at a word the two men "Yes, Sahib doctor," said Sree respectfully; "they wear bangles like "Thank old Sree, too, father," said Harry eagerly, "for he did more "They didn''t hear us come out, Phra," said Harry. "Yes," said Phra, "but they''ll have a good rest soon while we''re going "Make quite sure," said Harry, who with Phra was looking on. "Yes, father, directly," said Harry; "I mean, going to try." "What does it look like, Phra?" said Harry, for his companion had "Yes," said Harry, after looking out between the mats; "the boat is


id: 44681
title: Notes of a Journey on the Upper Mekong, Siam
author: Smyth, H. Warington (Herbert Warington)
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  [Illustration: THE RAPIDS AT THE GATES OF CHIENG KONG, MEKONG RIVER.] would go far on into the night; and then long before day the great and is brought down in small pieces, generally about 14 feet long. province, which to the north-east reaches to the Mekong at Chieng Kan. The Governor, Phya Pechai, is a fine, tall young man, who is (and this of Nan. The trail on to Cherim (north-east) crosses a number of small river-bed, which can be seen deep down in the clear water, or rising time we had been in the water that day), we reached the sala of M. and meeting it half a day''s boat journey below Chieng Kong. turning of the boat in rapids, a long oar is fitted to work night a temporary village on the north bank, where a number of Laos, the town was not good; after a long day''s pulling, helping the men,


id: 44679
title: Siam: Land of Free Men
author: Deignan, H. G. (Herbert Girton)
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  extreme south border, lies the kingdom of Siam, situated between 4° land of Central Siam, eventually there conflow to form the Me Nam Chao northern shores of the Gulf of Siam, at the mouth of the Chao Phraya, As Central Siam is the heart of the Kingdom, the royal city of Bangkok borders of Siam are the Thai ("free men") or Siamese proper; the Lao, At the same time as the various Mon-Khmer states of Siam were other Lao states arose and the time soon came when the Khmer could no Lao states to the north and all of the more southern Khmer kingdoms of people down into the mountainous regions of northern Siam, where the readily accepted as King by the people and ascended the throne in A.D. 1782, to found the dynasty which still reigns in Siam. Siamese provinces east of the river Me Khong, having at one time


id: 44615
title: Siam: Its Government, Manners, Customs, &c.
author: McDonald, N. A. (Noah A.)
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  generic name for river, meaning mother of water, and Chow Phya being chief ministers of state, who during the life of the king are merely At 11 o''clock, A.M., the new king appeared for the first time before The present King is about sixteen years old, and is apparently a almost any time by the better classes of Europeans in Siam, but the large an element in Siamese character, than any man in the kingdom. The late king of Siam speaks of the founder of the Budhist faith thus: thing for a man to leave his wife and family for a short time, and build his house, which generally requires but a short time, and the When a prince of high rank has died, the King visits the house of The remains of a king generally lie in state about twelve months, coming out in heads, and found the water in many places four feet


id: 44614
title: Progress of Western Education in China and Siam
author: nan
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  Shanghai Courier, in regard to foreign education for the Chinese, and educated, and, unless they can receive foreign instruction in China, Chinese in foreign branches of knowledge, either by the government of made to educate the Chinese in foreign branches of knowledge, either in regard to the education of Chinese in foreign languages within this government schools in Hong Kong are too great to enable private English or any other foreign language to their Chinese pupils now, nor education of Chinese in foreign knowledge in this consular district. I know of no schools founded by private enterprise in which foreign course of (4) reading books used in the government schools at Hong girls'' school, which numbers 14 scholars, has any foreign secular to the education of Chinese in foreign knowledge within this consular or sustain schools in which foreign knowledge has been taught. been taught in schools elsewhere, either at other ports or in foreign


id: 57253
title: Peeps at Many Lands: Siam
author: Young, Ernest
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  Now, in the same way, the people who live in Siam at the present time Some of the people who live on the water do not inhabit floating houses, never forsake the water till life is over and they set out on that long does fall into the water it matters but little, for there is no Siamese brown faces, strike the white man as being rather funny-looking little Siamese children, when very young, are but little troubled by either men who live to a great age become weak in mind and body, just like the number of little boys playing about in the cool, shady grounds who are up; the people form a kind of procession, and walk round the child five In Lower Siam fish forms an important part of the food of the people. Once a year each elephant is sprinkled with holy water by the priests,


id: 58175
author: Knox, Thomas Wallace
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  [Illustration: _Map to accompany "The Boy Travellers of the far East"_] "It is a great country," said Fred, "and has an enormous population: we "Nearly a hundred years ago," said Fred, "France opened relations with year 1520 the English built a war ship which they called the _The Great good deal of their time was passed on deck both by day and by night, "Now it is Fred''s turn," said Frank; "I have told the history of Marco "We passed the custom-house the other day," said Frank, "and I remember The consul and Doctor Bronson went forward, while Frank and Fred brought "I heard somebody say one day," said Fred, "that oysters grow on trees at high-tide, the water comes up a little way on the trunk of a tree, or course," said he, "one might learn in time to like betel, just as men in

title:
  The Boy Travellers in the Far East, Part Second Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Siam and Java; With Descriptions of Cochin-China, Cambodia, Sumatra and the Malay Archipelago


