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Title: Travels in the central parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos : during the years 1858, 1859, and 1860
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Mouhot, Henri, 1826-1861 Mouhot, Charles
Subjects: Mouhot, Henri, 1826-1861
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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evolts. Although overburdened with taxes, yet, to judge fromtheir clean and comfortable dwellings, and a certain airof well-doing which reigns in these villages, the inhabit-ants must enjoy some degree of prosperity, especially sincethe impulse given to commerce by the Europeans settledin the capital. The water was so thickly covered with weeds thatour progress was much impeded, and we were three daysin the canal; while, after May, it only takes the sametime to go from Paknam to Bangkok. On the 4th April I returned to the capital, after fifteenmonths absence. During the greater part of this time Ihad never known the comfort of sleeping in a bed; andthroughout my wanderings my only food had been rice ordried fish, and I had not once tasted good water. I wasastonished at having preserved my health so well, particu-larly in the forests, where, often wet to the skin, and withouta change of clothes, I have had to pass whole nights by afire at the foot of a tree; yet I have not had a single
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Vul. II. p. 44. Drawn by It Bocourt, from a Sketch, taken by M. Moahot in the residence of tie PrimaCEREMONY, ON A YOUNG SIAMESE COMING OF AGE, OF THE REMOVAL OF THE TUFT. Chap. XV. NEWS FROM EUROPE. 45 attack of fever, and been always happy and in goodspirits, especially when lucky enough to light upon somenovelty. A new shell or insect filled me with a joy whichardent naturalists alone can understand; but they knowwell how little fatigues and privations of all kinds arecared for when set against the delight experienced inmaking one discovery after another, and in feeling thatone is of some slight assistance to the votaries of science.It pleases me to think that my investigations into thearchaeology, entomology, and conchology of these landsmay be of use to certain members of the great and gene-rous English nation, who kindly encouraged the poornaturalist; whilst France, his own country, remained deafto his voice. It was another great pleasure to me, after these fifteenmonths of trav

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