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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by E. B. McDowell 



THE BOAT MARKET ON THE ME NAM RIVER, BANGKOK, SIAM 



Until modern times Bangkok was built largely on floating pontoons and on piles at the edges 

 of many canals, and it still faintly suggests an oriental Venice. 



thing ready for an early morrow start. 

 Toward evening my brother and I drove 

 into the city sight-seeing. 



As I had been to Delhi during my 

 flight to Calcutta with General Borton, I 

 played the guide, and an enjoyable ram- 

 ble through this future capital diverted 

 our thoughts from the Vimy for the 

 moment and enabled us to relax. 



Further diversion, with less relaxation, 

 was provided by the native driver of a 

 car we hired. In the language of the 

 realm in which we had been living, he 



navigated full out and nearly crashed us 

 on several occasions, in his desire to 

 show what a pilot he was. I declare that 

 I ''had the wind up" far more often on 

 this bit of journey than during the whole 

 flight. However, the casualties were 

 few and the fatalities nil, and we paid 

 him off at the R. A. F. quarters. 



At 4.30 next morning I tumbled stiffly 

 out of bed on the insistence of a Yankee 

 alarm-clock. Oh for another day off! 

 But by the time the others had uncoiled 

 and emerged into the early Indian dawn, 



