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Excerpt from Twentieth Century Impressions of Siam: Its History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources; With Which Is Incorporated an Abridged Edition of Twentieth Century Impressions of British Malaya Of this De Seixas, Joao de Barros, the old chronicler, says that he was supposed to have been a captive, but he was discovered to be the commander of a large body of men employed to subdue the mountain tribes and he reports that the Siamese army in his day (the beginning of the sixteenth century) consisted of cavalry, infantry, and war elephants, and that his army was raised without depopulating the country in any respect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.

Chiefly covers the 19th-20th centuries.