Historical Sketch of the Missions in Siam and Among the Laos
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Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the Missions in Siam and Among the Laos: Under the Care of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church China on the extreme east, and India on the south - each has its definite place in our mind; but we cannot always say as much for the tract of land which lies between them, in the southeast corner of Asia, and known sometimes as Farther India or Indo-China. Siam occupies the central and larger portion of this corner-land, with Burmah on its wet and Cochin China on the east, including also most of the long, narrow Malayan peninsula which juts out from the mainland and forms the sharply-defined corner of the continent. Beginning at the lower end of this peninsular portion, within five degrees of the equator, the Siamese territory extends 1350 miles to the north, and measures at its widest point some 450 miles from east to west. It contains 190,000 square miles, or about as much as New England with the four middle states. Most of the country is a low-lying plain, completely overflowed every year by its four great rivers. Journeying northward along the chief river, this plain is found to continue for some four hundred miles, when great mountains close in upon the stream, and the traveller encounters more than forty very difficult rapids in the midst of singularly-impressive scenery; after which the country opens again into another wide plain, very much like the former one, and known as that of the Laos people. The annual overflow of the rivers, with the abundant rainfall, enables the production of such crops as rice and sugar in great abundance. It is claimed to be the garden-land of the world - the land of fruit and flowers and of never-ending summer, with grand old trees overshadowing every hamlet, and plant-life in fullest variety bursting on every side from the fertile soil. It is also the land of elephants, the king having five thousand of them in his service for war purposes alone. One variety is that which is known to us as the "white" elephant, though the Siamese name for it is "the strange-colored," and it is really a whitish brown. Its form is used on the Siamese flags as the national symbol, and it is held in great honor, though not actually worshipped. There is great abundance of fish, as also of insects and, indeed, of every form of tropical life. 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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