The nearer and farther East; outline studies of Moslem lands and of Siam, Burma, and Korea . e of Europeans at Alexandria. 156 MOSLEM LANDS D. 1882. British occupation of Egypt. C. M. S. Mission. 1883. Defeat of Anglo-Egyptian forces to the Mission work began at Bagdad. 1885. Fall of Khartum. Murder of Gordon. 1885. Keith Falconer Mission began at Aden. 1889. The (American) Arabian Mission organized. 1889. Mahdi invasion of Egypt. 1890. Anglo-French protectorate over Sahara. 1891. Bishop French died at Muscat, May 14. 1892. French annex Dahomey and conquer Timbuktu. 1893. Mirza Ibr
The nearer and farther East; outline studies of Moslem lands and of Siam, Burma, and Korea . e of Europeans at Alexandria. 156 MOSLEM LANDS D. 1882. British occupation of Egypt. C. M. S. Mission. 1883. Defeat of Anglo-Egyptian forces to the Mission work began at Bagdad. 1885. Fall of Khartum. Murder of Gordon. 1885. Keith Falconer Mission began at Aden. 1889. The (American) Arabian Mission organized. 1889. Mahdi invasion of Egypt. 1890. Anglo-French protectorate over Sahara. 1891. Bishop French died at Muscat, May 14. 1892. French annex Dahomey and conquer Timbuktu. 1893. Mirza Ibrahim martyred in Persia. 1894. Anglo-French-German delimitation of Sudan. 1895. Rebellion of Arabs against the Turks in Yemen. 1895. Great Armenian Massacres. 1896. Massacre at Harpoot. 1898. Fall of the Mahdi. Occupation of the Sudan. 1900. British Protectorate declared over Nigeria and Hausa-land. 1906. The Algeciras Conference regarding Morocco. 1906. The first general Missionary Conference on behalf of the Mohammedan world held at Cairo. — Condensed from Islam a Challenge to SIAM BY THE REV. ARTHUR JUDSOX BROWN, author ofNew Forces in Old China AND The New Era in the Philippines CHAPTER VSIAM THE COUNTRY SiAM is an irregularly shaped country, the Siammain part of which lies between the twelfthand twenty-first parallels of latitude, but whichsends a long peninsula southward to withinfour degrees of the equator. It is bounded onthe north by the British Shan States and theFrench Tong King; on the east by Anam andCambodia, also French; on the south by theGulf of Siam and the Federated Malay States(British); and on the west by the IndianOcean and British Burma. Except, therefore,for a part of the peninsula, the countrj^ is com-pletely hemmed in by the French and British,though there is a coast-line on the Gulf of Siamand Indian Ocean of 1760 miles. Siam has lostconsiderable territory to France in recent years,but the country is still far from being insignifi-cant
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