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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

GREAT PAGODA WAT CHANG, _Frontispiece_

INUNDATION OF THE MEINAM, 11

PAGODA AT AYUTHIA, 21

VIEW TAKEN FROM THE CANAL AT AYUTHIA, 31

RUINS OF A PAGODA AT AYUTHIA, 38

GENERAL VIEW OF BANGKOK, 76

THE LATE FIRST KING AND QUEEN, 105

ONE OF THE SONS OF THE LATE FIRST KING, 109

A FEW OF THE CHILDREN OF THE LATE FIRST KING, 120

REMOVAL OF THE TUFT OF A YOUNG SIAMESE, 122

ELEPHANTS IN AN ENCLOSURE OR PARK AT AYUTHIA, 127

PAKNAM ON THE MEINAM, 129

PAGODA AT MOUNT PHRABAT, 130

MOUNTAINS OF KORAT FROM PATAWI, 141

PORT OF CHANTABOUN, 149

MONKEYS PLAYING WITH A CROCODILE, 180

SIAMESE ACTORS, 194

MOUNTAINS OF PECHABURI, 200

SIAMESE WOMEN, 234

SIAMESE ROPE-DANCER, 237

SIAMESE LADIES AT DINNER, 242

BUILDING ERECTED AT FUNERAL OF SIAMESE OF HIGH RANK, 251

HALL OF AUDIENCE, PALACE OF BANGKOK, 277

PORTICO OF THE AUDIENCE HALL AT BANGKOK, 280

THE PALACE OF THE KING OF SIAM, BANGKOK, 292

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