CHAPTER V. MODERN SIAM, 65 CHAPTER VI. FIRST IMPRESSIONS, 73 CHAPTER VII. A ROYAL GENTLEMAN, 86 CHAPTER VIII. PHRABAT SOMDETCH PHRA PARAMENDR MAHA MONGKUT, 104 CHAPTER IX. AYUTHIA, 121 CHAPTER X. PHRABAT AND PATAWI, 130 CHAPTER XI. FROM BANGKOK TO CHANTABOUN--A MISSIONARY JOURNEY IN 1835, 146 CHAPTER XII. CHANTABOUN AND THE GULF, 170 CHAPTER XIII. MOUHOT IN THE HILL-COUNTRY OF CHANTABOUN, 183 CHAPTER XIV. PECHABURI OR P'RIPP'REE, 200 CHAPTER XV. THE TRIBES OF NORTHERN SIAM, 216 CHAPTER XVI. SIAMESE LIFE AND CUSTOMS, 234 CHAPTER XVII. NATURAL PRODUCTIONS OF SIAM, 258 CHAPTER XVIII. CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN SIAM--THE OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE, 270 CHAPTER XIX. BANGKOK AND THE NEW SIAM, 277 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 SIAM CHAPTER I. EARLY INTERCOURSE WITH SIAM--RELATIONS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES