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Show 1 PAPERMAKIN IN SIA in the wilds of Siam. The lower part of the peninsula o Siam is most desolate, with white dry alluvial clay an scanty vegetation; the few mean houses scattered alon the railway were enclosed within high wooden stockades suggesting the possibility of marauding wild animals. The heat during the day was somewhat disturbing but the nights were decidedly cool which was a surpris inasmuch as all accounts of Malaysia and Siam that I ha read dweltat length on the intense, enervating heat, bot by night and day. During the following night the trai made stops at the towns of Kao Ghoom Tong, Ronpi bun, Tung Song, Surashtra Dani, Chiaya, Chumphon and by the third morning we had reached Bang Sapha Yai, only two hundred and thirty-five miles south of th city of Bangkok. As we drew closer to the Siamese capital the heat became more intense,and the floors of th carriages were literally covered with the dry hot dust o the desert. The towns and villages of the northern par of the peninsula, Prachuap Kirikan, Wang Pong, HuiHin, Petchaburi, Rajburi, Ban Pong, and Nakon Patom began to appear more promising, for here, at least, wer green trees and a few scattered flowers. It was a littl disconcerting, however, to watch the native people leav the train at the stations to lunch heartily upon coars white bread spread heavily with thick unsavory condensed milk. Late in the afternoon of the third day,i Al rights reserved |
