Excerpt from The Land of the White Elephant: Sights and Scenes in Southeastern Asia Within the past five years especially the attention of the western world has been earnestly and anxious ly directed to many of the countries of Asia - to Burma, Siam, Cambodia, and cochin-china amongst others - where unusual and extraordinary innovations have been introduced, Where encouraging social and religious revolutions have been initiated, and where modern progress is now so rapid as almost to raise fears of dangerous reaction or ...
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Excerpt from The Land of the White Elephant: Sights and Scenes in Southeastern Asia Within the past five years especially the attention of the western world has been earnestly and anxious ly directed to many of the countries of Asia - to Burma, Siam, Cambodia, and cochin-china amongst others - where unusual and extraordinary innovations have been introduced, Where encouraging social and religious revolutions have been initiated, and where modern progress is now so rapid as almost to raise fears of dangerous reaction or even collapse. Last year the Kings of Siam and Cambodia left, for the first time in history, their capital cities, and travelled in search of instruction and pleasure, the one to Java and India and the other to Hong Kong and Peking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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