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Show A TY ACCOUN OF A VISITATIO NILTONGKU FAMIL A WIT TH BANGSOM THE LAST REMNAN MADE PAPERMAKER O O X A A A A A A A A A A A A A AK X THE OLD HANDSOUTHERN SIA SI\JGAPORE is probably the most uninterestin cit in the Orient, and its unimaginative and common place qualities become more striking if the stranger i waiting,as T was, for the arrival ofa semi-weekly train. knew that no paper was being produced by hand in th Federated Malay States,and I was, therefore, impatien to be on my way to Siam, where I was reasonably certai that the ancient craft of papermaking was still practiced The normal person in making the journey from Sing apore to Bangkok would travel by steamship throug the China Sea, into the Gulf of Siam, and, after a week' comfortable voyage, would land in Paknam, theentranc port for the Siamese capital. Not beinga normal person however, I chose to journey to Bangkok by the windin railway that penetrates through the rubber plantation and jungles of the long and narrow Malay Peninsula, distance of eleven hundred and eighty-cight miles, requiring about sixty hours of travel. Since there is littl Al rights reserved |
