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suan, Chatya^ Bandon, Ligor or Lakhon, and Senggora, There 
are also two inland provinces between Trang and Senggora, 
almost independent, known as Patelung and Plean. 
The chain of mountains which forms the water-parting of 
the Peninsula divides the littoral States in the interior. These 
States are under Chinese or Siamese rulers, who are called 
in Siamese '* Phya''' The population is, in general, Siamese 
and Chinese, though Ligor has also a large number of Malay 
inhabitants. The population of all these provinces, together, 
has been • estimated by the latest traveller as high as 500^000 
souls. The country is very rich, but extreijiely httle known. 
A mixed Malayo- Siamese people, commonly known as 
" Sam -Sam/* form a large part of the population tn the South 
of Ligor and Senggora, and to the North of Kedah. Although 
assimilated to the Siamese in customs, and in religion also 
as regards Ligor, these Sam -Sam appear to be physically 
allied to the Malay rather than to the Thai stock. 
The following particulars arc knowu of the principal places : — 
KRA. — The isthmus of Km, the North district of lower Siam, con- 
tiect* the Jtaliiy Peninsula with Further India, and adjoins ttic frontier of 
British Burma' The province extends between latitude 9° ami 12° Korlli, 
with a biwltb averaging about GO miles. Near its centre, cn ti c North 
Bank o£ the Eiver PakshaUj is the town oF Kra. Coal is Rct utly reported 
to have been found in its neiglibourlioott, 
UENONG.— One of the priiicipul i>lat'cs on the West coast at the 
preyont time is Ktu(ni^ in the North, a Lin -producing Settlement, 
chiefly inhabited by Chinese, and of which, together with Traug, a Pcnang- 
boru Chiiiaman is now the feudatory Raju, 
