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OUTLINE MAP SHOWING RUINS OF ANGKOR: CAMBODIA 
Angkor Tom, the capital city, and Angkor Wat, the temple, far outweigh in importance 
all the other ruins. However, at Loley, Me-Baune, Kompong-Chnang, Beng-Mealea, Bakong, 
and elsewhere there exist architectural and sculptural remains well worth noticing, as shown 
in a few illustrations herein presented. The writer desires to acknowledge his indebtedness 
for the illustrations almost wholly to two collections : Dieulefils, in which the architectural 
view predominates, and Fournereau, where decorative detail is best shown. 
of, rasped against the sides of the sam- 
pan Hke a drowning thing struggHng for 
the surface, and threatening to capsize 
the boat. 
It was a scene of weird and fantastic 
beauty, with the triumph of the trees as 
its dominant note. With only a few short 
months during the dry season when they 
could be entirely above water, they were 
courageously invading the sea, adapting 
themselves to their novel situation and 
waiting for it to become dry land. 
(225) 
