PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 

 OF LONDON. 



SESSION 1859-60. 



Thirteenth Meeting, June \lth, 1860. 



LOED ASHBUETON, President, in the Chair. 



Presentations. — Bernard Dietz ; Edward M. Elderton ; and Robert 

 Rintoul, Esqrs., were presented upon their Election. 



Elections. — The Bishop of Labuan ; the Rev. R. Miles ; the Rev. J. J. 

 Stewart Perowne ; Professor H. D. Rogers ; Lord Seyinour ; the Earl of 

 tSouthesk ; Commander F. H, Stirling, r.n. ; Lord Stratheden ; James 

 Brown, m.p. ; C. J. Bunyon ; W. H. Cooke ; M. E. Grant Duff, m.p. ; 

 George Eliot, c.e. ; Thomas Fox, m.d. ; F. Haworth ; Hamilton Hume ; 

 Brinsley Nixon ; Arthur Paget ; and Arthur Giles Puller, Esqrs., were 

 elected Fellows, 



The Papers read were — 



1. Boat Excursion from Bangkok to Pecha-huri ; and 2. General Report 

 on the Trade of Siam. By Sir R. H. Schomburgk, Corresponding 

 F.R.G.S., Her Majesty's Consul in Siam. 



1st. Sir R. Schomburgk having suffered from indisposition during 

 a lengthened stay at the consulate in Siam, resolved to make an 

 excursion to the town of Pecha-buri, and furnishes in the present 

 paper a graphic narrative of the expedition. He made his way in 

 his barge through canals, until he reached the sea at the town of 

 Meklong, and thence he coasted in her round to the mouth of the 

 Pecha-buri Eiver. There were many signs of industry along the 

 banks which he ascended, — fish-curing, lime-burning, salt stores, 

 and numerous flower-gardens. He was received with hospitality 

 by the Governor of Pecha buri, who showed him some native 

 enterta-inments, and among others a bull-race — the bulls being 

 attached to carts. He says the structure of the racing-cart is 

 strikingly similar to the one represented in the bas-reliefs of the 

 remains of Nineveh in Layard's ' Popular Account of the Discoveries 



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