Our young folks [serial] . The King of Siam beauty. Bangkok is a sort of Oriental Venice. But it is more wonderfulthan Venice, in the manner in which it is built upon the water. It is — atleast a large part of it is — a floating city. When it first became the capital i872.] The Schoolmistress in Siam. 66s. A Siamese Princess. of Siam, the houses were built on the banks of the river; but, owing to theravages of the cholera, one of the kings commanded the people to build onthe river itself. Greater cleanliness, and a charming picturesqueness of 666 The Schoolmistress in Siam. [November, appearan
Our young folks [serial] . The King of Siam beauty. Bangkok is a sort of Oriental Venice. But it is more wonderfulthan Venice, in the manner in which it is built upon the water. It is — atleast a large part of it is — a floating city. When it first became the capital i872.] The Schoolmistress in Siam. 66s. A Siamese Princess. of Siam, the houses were built on the banks of the river; but, owing to theravages of the cholera, one of the kings commanded the people to build onthe river itself. Greater cleanliness, and a charming picturesqueness of 666 The Schoolmistress in Siam. [November, appearance, were the result. Now the city has two hundred thousandfloating dwellings and shops, and a million inhabitants. The houses are of wood, tastefully adorned, built on rafts of are linked together with chains, and moored to great piles plantedin the bed of the stream. Two or three rows of these strange floatingstructures extend for miles along the river. This is the Broadway of thecity, on which the inhabitants move in boats and on rafts, instead of usingwheeled vehicles, as we do in our streets. To every little water-cottagea canoe is tethered for errands and visits. Even the houses on the river-banks are raised on piles, to be above the reach of high water. The river, naturally, swar
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