Talks, Tales and Public Opinion
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Talks, Tales and Public Opinion: A Magazine After we had taken a pilot on board the "Danube," and the tide had been sufficient to float the vessel over the bar at the mouth of the Menam river, we resumed our voyage making many curves which at times were so sharp that it seemed as though our steamer must squirm like a snake to get around them. On either side, the banks were covered with verdure and the river itself was alive with small craft. Mr. S. observed that the laborers who often came out of the openings in the dense foliage, to watch our steamer pass, much resembled Chinese, and inquiry brought out the fact that they actually were Chinese who flocked to Siam in great numbers, just as the Italian laborers come to the United States. While we were still in the midst of cocoa and other tropical trees the captain told us we were in Bangkok. There was a saw-mill and a dock-yard among the trees on one side of the river, and farther on was a large house, with an open space of an acre or more between it and the river. We had reached what is called the foreign portion of the city; the native part being nearly three miles farther on, and quite concealed by a bend in the stream. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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