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Identifier: siampeepsatmany00youn (find matches)
Title: Siam
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Young, Ernest, 1869-1952 Norbury, Edwin Arthur, 1849-
Subjects: Thailand -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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TOMY CHILD FRIEND, SYBIL MARJORIE COOPER, I AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATE THIS, MY FIRSTBOOK FOR CHILDREN CONTENTS CHAPTER I. A PEEP INTO SIAMESE HISTORYII. IN EASTERN VENICEIII. DOWN THE RIVERIV. THE CHILDRENV, SCHOOLSVI. AMUSEMENTSVII. THE STORY OF BUDDHAVIII. THE MONKSIX. THE TEMPLESX. THE SHAVING OF THE TOP-KNOTXI. HOUSESXII. FOOD AND DRESS XIII. FISHING XIV. RICE ....XV. A PLOUGHING CEREMONY XVI. ELEPHANTS .XVII. WHITE ELEPHANTSXVIII. TRIAL BY ORDEAL I 5 10 1518222734394448 555660 6569 7579 VI LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS By EDWIN A. NORBURY, R.C.A.A TYPICAL CANAL SCENE .... frontispiece FACING PAGE A CORNER OF THE GRAND PALACE ENCLOSURE, BANGKOK 4 THE RIVER MARKET, BANGKOK . THE GULF OF SIAM MOONLIGHT A BUFFALO CART .... A GROUP OF BUDDHIST MONKS . THE TEMPLE OF WAT POH MOUNT PRABHAT . ... A FISHING-BOAT NEAR THE ISLAND PAGODA, PAKNAM THE ANNUAL RICE-PLOUGHING FESTIVAL . AN ELEPHANT HUNT AT AYUTHIA A RELIGIOUS WATER PROCESSION . Sketch-Map of Si am on p. viii. 1625324148 5764 7380 VII
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SKETCH-MAP OF SIAM. VIU S I A M CHAPTER I A PEEP INTO SIAMESE HISTORY You have doubtless already learned in your history ofEngland that at one time this island home of ourswas peopled by wild, uncivilized tribes, who weredriven away into the hills of the north and the west byinvaders who came to our shores from the lands on theother side of the North Sea. At different times. Jutes,Saxons, Danes, and Angles poured their warriors uponour coasts, killed the people, burnt their homes, andstole their cattle. And one of these invading tribes,the Angles, gave its name to a part of our island, whichis to this day known as England—that is, Angle-land,the land of the Angles. Now, in the same way, the people who live in Siamat the present time are the descendants of invaders whoswept into the country and drove the original inhabi-tants into the hills. No one is quite certain where theSiamese actually came from, but it is likely that theirhome was upon the mountain-slopes of Tibet. Their SI. I

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