Identifier: grantstouraround00pack (find matches)
Title: Grant's tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland ..
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Packard, J. F
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Voyages around the world
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo., W. S. Bryan (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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printed with gold—a legend, or a jjroverb, or acompliment. Chinese junks are at anchor, and, as youlook at the huge, misshapen craft, you have a renewedsense of the providence of God that such machines can goand come on the sea. The prow of each vessel has twolarge, glaring, grotesque eyes—it being a legend of the 662 GRANTS TOUR Chinese mariner that two eyes are as necessary to a shipas to a man. Boats are paddled slowly along in whichare persons wearing yellow garments, with closely-shavencrowns. These are priests of the Buddhist faith, who wearyellow as a sacred color, and who are now on their wayto some temple, or more likely to beg. Above these denselines of huts and floating houses you see the towers of thecity, notably the great Pagoda, one of the wonders of theEast, a mass of mosaic, marbles, and precious stones, fromwhich the three-headed elej^hant, sacred to Siam and thetransmigration of the Lord Buddha, looks down upon thecity, keeping watch and ward over the faithful.
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THE KINGS CHIEF COUNSELLOR. You are told that Bangkok is the Venice of the East,which means that it is a city of canals. When the tidesare high, you go in all directions in boats. Your Broadwayis a canal. You go shopping in a boat. You stroll in AROUND THE WORLD. 663 your covered gondola lying prone on your back, shelteredfrom the sun, dozing the fierce, warm hours away, whileyour boatmen and/ other boatmen passing and repassingshout their plaintive Wah-wah. You see the house ofthe Foreign Minister, a palace with a terrace, a verandaand a covered way sloping towards the river. You see amass of towers and roofs surrounded by a wall. This isthe palace of the first King, the supreme King, of Siam.Beyond is another mass of towers and roofs where residesthe second King. Happy Siam has two sovereigns—afirst King who does everything, whose power is absolute, anda second King who does nothing excej^t draw a large income.This second King, oddly enough, is named George Wash-ington, having bee

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