Notes of Visits to Puket, Ghirbee 

 and Trang. 



By C. W. Kynnersley. 



Left Penang at 5 p.m. on Friday, 27th February, 1903, 

 in s. s. Avagyee, (owned by KOE GuAN,) which trades between 

 Penang and Rangoon calling at the Siamese ports en route. 



Arrived at Puket at 2.30 p,m. on 28th. Since I was 

 there two years ago quarantine sheds have been put up opposite 

 the light-house and there is said to be a good water supply 

 there. 



The harbour continues to silt up and undoubtedly the min- 

 ing works have made matters worse. Where I landed last time 

 is now a high mud flat which I hear is going to be mined. 



The site of rhe present town is all tin land. The principal 

 road to the landing place has been diverted to allow a mine to 

 be opened. Borings are being taken by the Government Offices 

 and if tin is found the site will be sold and new Offices built else- 

 where. Everything is sacrificed to the mines. At the present 

 price ($97) it pays well to work mines which were given up at 

 my last visit when tin was about $60. SlM BEE has been very 

 busy laying out new roads. The road which the late Commis- 

 sioner was opening up has of course been abandoned as a bad 

 one. A new road (60 feet) has been laid out by the edge of a 

 new mine parallel to the principal shop street, the land on either 

 side which is low being filled in with the overburden from the 

 mine. Shop houses will be built and a new market erected. I 

 noticed several improvements since my last visit. Then the 

 place swarmed with pigs. These have been banished outside 

 the town. On the outskirts of the town among the brushwood 

 I noticed the mounds of new Chinese graves. SlM BEE said he 

 was going to stop indiscriminate burying and have a Chinese 

 Cemetery. The last* Commissioner said the same. The last 



R. A. Soc.,No. 42, 1904, 



