CHAPTER V.

Interview with Prince Chroma Chit.--Mr. Finlayson called upon to visit a case of Cholera in the Palace.--Mission not visited by any Persons of Respectability.--Parties at the Court of Bankok.--Nothing granted in favour of Commerce.--Agent to the Governor General leaves without an audience.--Bankok; the Dwellings mostly Floating Rafts.--Inhabitants mostly Chinese.--Manufactures of Tin, Leather, Cast-Iron Vessels.--Balachang.--Siamese eat Flesh, but do not kill.--Palaces and Temples, or Prachadis of Bankok.--Images of Buddha excessively numerous.--Analogies between the Pyramid of Egypt and the Bauddhic Dagoba 194