Produced by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) PEEPS AT MANY LANDS SIAM LIST OF VOLUMES IN THE PEEPS AT MANY LANDS SERIES EACH CONTAINING 12 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR PRICE +1/6+ EACH NET POST FREE 1/10 BURMA CANADA EGYPT ENGLAND FRANCE HOLLAND HOLY LAND ICELAND INDIA ITALY JAPAN MOROCCO SCOTLAND SIAM SOUTH AFRICA SOUTH SEAS SWITZERLAND THE WORLD Containing 37 full-page illustrations in colour PRICE +3/6+ NET POST FREE 3/10 PUBLISHED BY ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. AGENTS AMERICA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 64 & 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CANADA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD. 27 RICHMOND STREET WEST, TORONTO INDIA MACMILLAN & COMPANY, LTD. MACMILLAN BUILDING, BOMBAY 309 BOW BAZAAR STREET, CALCUTTA AUSTRALASIA OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, MELBOURNE [Illustration: A TYPICAL CANAL SCENE. _Chapter II._] PEEPS AT MANY LANDS SIAM BY ERNEST YOUNG, B.SC. HEAD MASTER OF THE LOWER SCHOOL OF JOHN LYON, HARROW FORMERLY OF THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, SIAM AUTHOR OF "THE KINGDOM OF THE YELLOW ROBE," ETC. WITH TWELVE FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY EDWIN A. NORBURY, R.C.A. LONDON ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK 1908 TO MY CHILD FRIEND, SYBIL MARJORIE COOPER, I AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATE THIS, MY FIRST BOOK FOR CHILDREN CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. A PEEP INTO SIAMESE HISTORY 1 II. IN EASTERN VENICE 5 III. DOWN THE RIVER 10 IV. THE CHILDREN 15 V. SCHOOLS 18 VI. AMUSEMENTS 22 VII. THE STORY OF BUDDHA 27 VIII. THE MONKS 34 IX. THE TEMPLES 39 X. THE SHAVING OF THE TOP-KNOT 44 XI. HOUSES 48 XII. FOOD AND DRESS 55 XIII. FISHING 56 XIV. RICE 60 XV. A PLOUGHING CEREMONY 65 XVI. ELEPHANTS 69 XVII. WHITE ELEPHANTS 75 XVIII. TRIAL BY ORDEAL 79 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS BY EDWIN A. NORBURY, R.C.A. A TYPICAL CANAL SCENE _frontispiece_ FACING PAGE A CORNER OF THE GRAND PALACE ENCLOSURE, BANGKOK 4 THE RIVER MARKET, BANGKOK 9 THE GULF OF SIAM--MOONLIGHT 16 A BUFFALO CART 25 A GROUP OF BUDDHIST MONKS 32 THE TEMPLE OF WAT POH 41 MOUNT PRABHAT 48 A FISHING-BOAT NEAR THE ISLAND PAGODA, PAKNAM 57 THE ANNUAL RICE-PLOUGHING FESTIVAL 64