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" II. THE CHINAMAN ABROAD AND AT HOME.
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FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote A: "Chulakantamangala." Captain Gerini.]
[Footnote B: See Chapter X.]
[Footnote C: "The Wheel of the Law". Alabaster.]
[Footnote D: "Siam Repository."]
[Footnote E: "Siam." Miss Cort.]
[Footnote F: Lightning.]
[Footnote G: "Siam", Bowring.]
[Footnote H: See "Buddhism", Rhys Davids.]
[Footnote I: A Siamese "chang" or "catty" is equal to about 2-2/3 lbs. avoirdupois.]
[Footnote J: "Siam". Miss Cort.]
[Footnote K: "Light of Asia". Arnold.]
[Footnote L: "Light of Asia". Arnold.]
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Transcriber's Notes
Minor punctuation errors have been silently corrected. Some hyphenation inconsistencies have been standardized.
The two pages of ads at the beginning of the book have been moved to the ads section at the end of the book.
LoI: Added Fishing Lugger, page 174.
LoI: Changed "Klong" to "Khlong" to match illustration caption. (Orig: Klong near Petchaboorree.)
Page 2: Changed "suceess" to "success." (Orig: new sovereign owed much of his suceess.)
Page 18: "kharki" may be a typo for "khaki." (Orig: postmen in their yellow kharki uniforms)
Page 115: Deleted duplicate "of." (Orig: cut into rectangular pieces of of the same size)
Page 261: Changed "foo" to "food." (Orig: they must not partake of solid foo of any description.)
Page 268: Changed "obselete" to "obsolete." (Orig: these counsels are so many obselete laws,)
Page 270: Changed "he" to "be." (Orig: his mind should he well controlled.)
Page 325: Changed "carcases" to "carcasses." (Orig: better spent in burning dead dogs' carcases.)
Page 335: Changed "the" to "he." (Orig: With mingled joy and grief the parted with his long-loved)
Page 338: Changed "he" to "be." (Orig: Whatever he ordered to he done in his own provinces)
Page 358: Changed "estabished" to "established." (Orig: afterwards definitely estabished as annual occurrences)
Page 395: Changed "on" to "one." (Orig: On of them was)
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