300 Rev. Mr. Gurstarr’s Remarks on the Siamese Language. 
ance. Though there are at Bangkok some royal professors of the language, 
literature is by no means encouraged, nor is any preferment bestowed upon 
those who excel in it. Even works of fiction are in this age no longer 
multiplied ; among the myriads of priests, there is not one who could be 
styled an author. Thus the state of things must remain till the Almighty 
hand of Gop promotes among the Siamese the saving knowledge of the 
Gospel, and gives to their mind a new impulse. 
SPECIMENS or SIAMESE STYLE. 
No.1. 
“ Nang st sit.” © Books in rhyme. 
“© Pra su tonie mah nura.” 
* Kha k’ho bung kom 
Pra nok bautah man 
Pra chaou an kow 
Prot sat song san 
Vae kin prah put 
Nap neuwa ha si 
Saum seip pat anme 
Paén te na massah kan 
Khoon krt pae hak saum 
Yoh kin wy sin 
Koh k’hlan taun raun 
Ruang row taun ne 
Taun pu tde kah 
Meat moun nak nah 
Tseng wo ruang kwam 
Set cha pae mak ah 
Pek k’hunung kra san 
Sah-vo-rat tan thaum 
Vol. I. page 1. 
A NARRATIVE. 
Translation. 
Yok kon pra nom 
Som det chah 
St ne phan 
Paun chak lo ko 
Ah seip hok bure sit 
Wy pra taum 
Ya kun seim seip se 
Whaun biddah mo daun 
Hoo pacha a chan 
Kun sin kun taun 
St tan ma nu rah 
Taun wy ballt 
Raou ba t’ht chaoun 
Dy fang taum mah 
Pra hong sat saddah 
Cha tu won raum 
Ma tu kaum 
T’het sah na pret praum.” 
“© IT beg to make my obeisance, raising the hands, joined, prostrate, adoring God, most 
high, eternal—have mercy upon the beast, commiserate me when I leave the world. I 
pay respects to Bupn’na, fifty-six times blessed; I raise the hands over my head, I 
adore the grace of the holy books, of which there are thirty-eight,—in which the adorable 
