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id: 44614
title: Progress of Western Education in China and Siam
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  I think His Majesty wishes to open other schools, but they must make an experiment with this one first and see how it succeeds. Besides these, however, there are many schools, of a more or less advanced order, in charge of and supported by the several foreign missionary bodies, where other branches than those directly connected with the moral and religious purposes of the missionaries are taught.


id: 44679
author: Deignan, H. G. (Herbert Girton)
title: Siam: Land of Free Men
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  The suppression of the Lao-Tai undertaken in southwestern China, culminating in the decisive victories of the Emperor Kublai Khan, drove many thousands of these people down into the mountainous regions of northern Siam, where the newcomers upset the balance of power among their predecessors and caused the disruption of several of their states. During succeeding centuries Lao armies advanced far south into the Mon-Khmer kingdoms, marital and political alliances between Lao and Khmer royalty became common, and Lao settlements were established in various parts of southern Siam.


id: 43908
author: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard
title: Our Little Siamese Cousin
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  It took little time and money to furnish the room. She made believe they were eating, just as other little girls play, far away across the great ocean.


id: 57253
author: Young, Ernest
title: Peeps at Many Lands: Siam
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  They sometimes stand directly on the ground, but at other times the slender spires will be found over the doorways, or even on the tops of the buildings. Other elephants are noosed in the open, but in the evening, after a bathe in the river, the herd goes back to the _paneat_.


id: 44615
author: McDonald, N. A. (Noah A.)
title: Siam: Its Government, Manners, Customs, &c.
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  He also imbibed from them more liberal views in regard to western nations, and consequently as soon as he ascended the throne he was prepared to treat with them; and that which in many other countries had to be done by gunpowder, was in this instance accomplished by missionary effort. Indeed the feeling in high quarters has hitherto been against it, but not near so strong as in India, and many other places, but that feeling is now happily passing away.


id: 44681
author: Smyth, H. Warington (Herbert Warington)
title: Notes of a Journey on the Upper Mekong, Siam
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  In a few years' time there will, no doubt, be more men at work, and larger areas of pits in work. One man showed me what he declared was the result of his year's work--three good stones of rich colour and good water, for which he expected to get 100, 60, and 50 Rs.


id: 44564
author: Turpin, F. H. (François Henri)
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title:
  History of the Kingdom of Siam and of the revolutions that have caused the overthrow of the empire, up to A. D. 1770

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  His son was proclaimed King, and the joy of seeing his successor in power rendered him indifferent to the pangs of death. Mandara_, King of Burma took advantage of their internal dissensions to attempt the conquest of Pegu.


id: 48111
author: Young, Ernest
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  The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe Being Sketches of the Domestic and Religious Rites and Ceremonies of the Siamese

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  Rice is cooked in many other ways; made into cakes, fermented to make an intoxicating drink, taken internally as medicine, and used externally as a poultice. Merit is made in many other ways besides alms-giving and feeding the priests.


id: 8678
author: Leonowens, Anna Harriette
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  The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok

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  And the fame of his wisdom and goodness flew through all the lands, so that many kings became willing vassals unto him; but there came from a far-off country, where the heavens drop no rain, but where one great river suddenly floods the plains and then shrinks back into itself like a living thing, a king of lofty stature and exceeding craft. The sad look left her face, her life had found an interest; and very often, on _fÃªte_ days, she was my only pupil;--when suddenly an ominous cloud obscured the sky of her transient gladness.


id: 58175
author: Knox, Thomas Wallace
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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

summary:
  [Illustration: MEDIÆVAL TARTAR HUTS AND WAGONS.] [Illustration: FLYING-FISH.] Porpoises and flying-fish appeared occasionally, and their lively leaps from the water were a source of much amusement to the youths.


