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placed in a golden boat, or model of a ship. This, carried in procession 
like the Egyptian Argo of old, typical of Ostris, was then put into a reser- 
voir of water prepared below the foundation, or in the centre of a temple.* 
No. 47. 
Chammachurt. This represents the tail of the small ox of Hemawa, or the 
Yak of Thibet, so well known all over India as a wisp to keep off flies ; and 
sometimes as the plume of a helmet, or a streamer at the end of a spear. 
These tails, or chowries, are called Séchaburi by the Siamese. The Indo- 
Chinese nations probably receive them directly from the frontiers of Thibet, 
or Tartary. 
The Siamese call the Tartars Cham, which is another appellation, as we 
are informed by Maurice, for Ham, who is supposed to have led the first 
colony westward to the banks of the Nile ; and hence, Egypt was antiently 
called Terra Charm, or Cham. Some suppose that Ham was Buppa. 
The woods of the Indo-Chinese countries shelter a species of cattle much 
larger than the Yak. In the woods of the coast of Siam, the bison is a 
very powerful animal, and seems not yet to have been accurately described. 
I have only seen its horns; which measure twenty-four inches in 
length, and nineteen in circumference at the base. The termination of the 
black part of the horn is twelve inches from the tip, and nine in circumfe- 
rence. 
No, 48. 
Ninla (or Nila) Palang. The blue lotus, or rather water lily of He- 
mawa, called nilot palang by the Siamese, who, as well as the Hindus, have 
confounded the two species together. 
When Pura Poorp ma, or Bupp a, walked abroad, say the Siamese, the 
lotus, in all its expanded beauty and brilliancy of colour, spontaneously 
grew up to prevent his feet from touching the ground. 
The universality of this type of more than one religion, is too well 
known to require expatiating on. A few instances may however be 
noticed. 
* Wilford says, ‘‘ We are assured by Tacitus, that one of the oldest and most powerful of the 
German nations worshipped Isis in the form of a ship. From Egypt the type was imported to 
Greece, and an umbilicus of white marble was kept at Delphi.” 
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