Travels in the central parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos : during the years 1858, 1859, and 1860 . history of Siam,we prefer to give an extract from the appendix to thecelebrated work of Sir John Bowring, The Kingdomand People of Siam: the passage originally appearedin The Chinese Eepository, and is from the pen of thelate king:— Our ancient capital Ayuthia, before the year 1350,was but the ruin of an ancient place belonging to Kam-buja (now known as Cambodia), formerly called Lawek,whose inhabitants then possessed Southern Siam, orWestern Kambuja. Ayuthia is situated in lat.
Travels in the central parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos : during the years 1858, 1859, and 1860 . history of Siam,we prefer to give an extract from the appendix to thecelebrated work of Sir John Bowring, The Kingdomand People of Siam: the passage originally appearedin The Chinese Eepository, and is from the pen of thelate king:— Our ancient capital Ayuthia, before the year 1350,was but the ruin of an ancient place belonging to Kam-buja (now known as Cambodia), formerly called Lawek,whose inhabitants then possessed Southern Siam, orWestern Kambuja. Ayuthia is situated in lat. 14° 19 N.,and long. 100° 37 E. from Greenwich. There were othercities, not far remote, also possessed by the Xambujans;but their precise locality or much of their history cannotnow be satisfactorily ascertained. Some time near theyear 1300, the former inhabitants were much dimi-nished by frequent wars with the northern Siamese andthe PegTians, or Mous, so that these cities were vacated,or left in a ruinous state, and nothing remained but theirnames. Former inhabitants declared that the people of. Chap. II. HISTOEICAL SKETCH. 73 Chiang-rai, a province of what is now called Chiang-mai(North Laos), and Kampengpet, being frequently subjectedto great annoyance from their enemies, deserted theirnative country, and formed a new establishment at Cha-liang, in the western part of Siam proper, and built acity, which they called Thepha-maha-na-khon, whence hasbeen preserved in the national records the name of ourcapital down to the present day, Krung-Thepha-maha-na-khon. Their city was about lat. 16^^ N., and long. 99° E.,and there five kings of the first dynasty reigned, untilthe sixth, named U-Tong Kama-thi-bodi, ascended thethrone in 1344. This king, it is said, was son-in-law ofhis predecessor, who was named Sirichai Chiang Seu, whowas without male issue, and therefore the throne de-scended to the son-in-law by right of the royal daughter. U-Tong Ram4-thi-bodi was a mightie
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