| OCR Text |
Show 2 PAPERMAKIN IN SIA At intervals during our sojourn my venerable hostes would cease her work for an instant, and with astonish ing vigour she would break coconuts and pour the halfwarm milk into an earthen bowl, which had been coolin in the stream, for me to drink. She was contented onl when busily engaged in some operation of making pape so that I might see every detail of the entire process, o when performing some act of hospitality to make m sojourn comfortable and agreeable. Even though thi shrivelled old woman was as primitive as a native of th jungle and had never been any distance from her ow little estate bordered by the muddy canals of Bangsom she possessed a graciousness and charm of manner tha would befit one of much higher birth and calling. Ove a period of many years I have visited and lived with various so-called uncivilized people,and always have I bee delighted with their kindly manners, their humility, an their lack of pretension A number of 44oi trees, from the bark of which th paper was made, were growing in the immediate vicinit of the Niltongkum home, but these trees were not disturbed, the bark being brought to the mill in bundle of dried branches by itinerant woodsmen who gather i along the narrow canals and in the dense jungles. I times past, when all of the paper used in Siam was mad by hand and there were numerous family mills along th Digital image 2004 Marriott Library, University of Utah. All ights reserved |
