A relation of the late Embassy of Monsr. de Chaumont, Knt. to the Court of the King of Siam. : With an account of the government, state, manners, religion and commerce of the Kingdom.

  • Chaumont, Alexandre, chevalier de, -1710.
Date:
1687
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Credit: A relation of the late Embassy of Monsr. de Chaumont, Knt. to the Court of the King of Siam. : With an account of the government, state, manners, religion and commerce of the Kingdom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f wad A Vovooe te iam Li KV CVU Ke ZO Sid lid. fs wee ES 2 y ‘Mothers which were very fine ones; the “NWatermen were apparelled like ‘the llSouldiers, but onely they had a kind lof breaft and back-plates, and each ‘Wof them an helmet on their heads, ‘which is {aid to be of Gold , their Pag ‘Nor Sculs were gilt with Gold, a the Barges were, which fhewed very ll fine, there were an hundred and four- if Barges, and in thofe of the Mandarins | about an hundred, and an hundred and iW twenty, there were Guards that follow- ed, andfeveral other A¢andarins who i@ made ‘the rear Guard, the King was \ richly Apparelled with feveral pretious i Stones, 1faluted him in pafling by, and 9) he returned my complement, his Train Wi! confifted of an hundred and forty ftate- ill) ly Barges, which appeared very finely li} indeed on the water, marching all in 0 good’ order. After Dinner I went i] into my Barge to fee the reft of the i] Ceremony, at night the King changed ii) his Barge, and propofed a prize to li) that Barge that fhould firft arrive by ili] force of Oars to the Palace, he him- i felf was one of the party, and he ad- } oe: vanced