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of pageants and figures are carried about. Here are exhibited the great 

 mountain mure, ships, mock animals of all kinds, &c. 



Kite Flying. 



Waau are paper kites, ranked as male and female. The Siamese are 

 extremely fond of this amusement. The kite is about five or six feet high, 

 and with the cord may, in some instances, cost seventy dollars. 



Dances. 



Mon ram. — The Peguer dance. This resembles the Indian dance, 

 but is rather more lively, and, like the dancing girls of India, the Siamese 

 ones sing during the exhibition. 



Lakhdii is a theatrical entertainment to which allusion has before 

 been made. In it various styles of dancing are displayed, from the 

 solemn movement indicative of dignity or grief, to the quick step corres- 

 ponding to the sentiments prevalent in the piece. 



Len Mongkluin and phleng Saivan. — " The heavenly concert,'' an imi- 

 tation of the theatricals of the Devattas. 



Khon. — Dancing on the Stage, differs little from that in the Lakhan. 



Fire Works. 



Such as pyramids of all sorts, rockets, fire balls, fire fountains, &c. 

 are exhibited at festivals. Siamese pyrotechny has apparently been bor- 

 rowed from the Chinese. 



Hun are dressed puppets of wood, to the movements of which 

 dialogues are appropriated as in our Punch, who came no doubt from the 

 east. 



Len Nana- 



Fantoccini, or puppets of leather, which also have dialogues to accom- 

 pany their movements. 



Huang Ramakc-un. 



The events of Rama's life dramatized. It occupies many days in 



performance. The Malays have the same drama ; but they prefer the 



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