The Mission to Siam, and Hué: The Capital of Cochin China, in the Years 1821-2. From the Journal of the Late George Finlayson ... With a Memoir of the Author, by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, F.R.S.J. Murray, 1826 - 427 หน้า |
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หน้า 230 - We found one of those pyramids covered with vultures, and the enclosure much frequented by dogs. The scene was loathsome and disgusting in the extreme, and sufficiently attested the prevalence of this custom. The practice is looked upon as charitable and laudable, and the Siamese arrogate to themselves no small share of merit in thus disposing of the...
หน้า 144 - ... extremity of the hall, a large handsome curtain, made of cloth covered with tinsel or gold leaf, and suspended by a cord, divided the space occupied by the throne from the rest of the apartment. On each side of this curtain there were placed five or six singular but handsome ornaments, called...
หน้า 232 - ... the ligatures is to squeeze the moisture out of the body. They act also in preserving the required posture, and with this object the more flexile tendons of the extremities are divided. In this posture the body is next placed in an air-tight vessel of wood, brass, silver, or gold, according to the rank of the deceased. A tube, or hollow bamboo, inserted into the mouth of...
หน้า 225 - Siamese, ascertained by actual measurement of a considerable number of individuals, amounts to five feet three inches. The skin is of a lighter colour than in the generality of Asiatics to the west of the Ganges ; by far , the greater number being of a yellow complexion, a colour which, in the higher ranks, and particularly amongst women and children, they take pleasure in heightening by the use of a bright yellow wash or cosmetic, so that their bodies are often rendered of a golden colour. The texture...
หน้า 143 - ... or of indignation, caused by the debased condition of a whole nation. Such a scene was well calculated to take a firm hold on the imagination. I shall, however, endeavour to describe it in its true colours, and with the least possible aid from that faculty. The hall was lofty, wide, and well aired, and appeared to be about sixty or eighty feet in length, and of proportionate breadth. The ceiling and walls were painted with various colours, chiefly in the form of wreaths and festoons ; the roof...
หน้า 238 - It will be seen by the manner in which the funeral-pile is lighted, how much attention hag been bestowed upon the arrangement even of the most trivial matters. A train is laid from the pile to the place where the king stands, others to those occupied by the princes of the family, with this distinction in their distribution, that the train laid to the king's station is the only one that directly reaches the pile. That of the next person in rank joins this at a little distance, and so of the others,...
หน้า 13 - On the llth of next month, they came to anchor in the harbour of Penang ; of which island we have a magnificent description. Its natural beauty, according to Mr. Finlayson, Is rivalled only by the industry of the inhabitants: Industry, active, useful, manly and independent, seemed here to have found a congenial soil and fostering care. The indolent air of the Asiatic was thrown aside. Every arm laboured to produce some useful object, and every countenance, teeming with animation, seemed, as it were,...
หน้า 145 - ... an obscure light was cast, of sufficient size to display the human body to effect, in the sitting posture. In this niche was placed the throne, projecting from the wall a few feet. Here, on our entrance, the King sat immoveable as a statue, his eyes directed forwards. He resembled in every respect an image of Buddha placed upon his throne ; while the solemnity of the scene, and the attitude of devotion observed by the multitude, left little room to doubt that the temple had been the source from...
หน้า 188 - Its principal character is that of being soft, lively, sweet, and cheerful, to a degree, which seemed to us quite surprising. They have arrived beyond the point of being pleased with mere sound— the musician aimed at far higher views, that of interesting the feelings, awakening thought, or exciting the passions. Accordingly they have their different kinds of music, to which they have recourse according as they wish to produce one or other of these effects.
หน้า 356 - China on his accession; and he begged that the Mandarin would represent the matter to his majesty. The answer was, that he had already communicated with the king on the subject, and that such was the royal determination; that, had the Agent to the Governor-general come on other than commercial affairs, he would have been presented to the court, but that it was altogether contrary to its customs to give audience on such occasions ; that had Mr. Crawfurd been the envoy of the king of England, or of...