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meet with in the Papuans of New Guinea, in the natives of many of the 
Pacific islands, and in the mountains of Indo-China . . . They detest the 
Malays, and hold no intercourse with them.” Further we meet with the 
author’s description of many curious habits and manners of the people of 
Siam. By the way, some of the writer’s tales strike us with a doubt as to 
their accuracy, which we do not like to express more particularly ; for 
instance, the story of the Siamese Prince and the foreign china-broker. 
The Jacoons.* 
However, we can pass over this, when there are so many facts of the greatest 
interest and of undoubted truth. What, for example, can be more won- 
derful to see in such a country than the Temple of Nakhon Wat ? A 
wondrous temple, gigantic in point of size, symmetrical in all its parts, and 
yet completely different from the buildings of the population now exist- 
ing. u The secret,” says the author, “ of my emotion lay in the extreme 
contrast between Nakhon Wat — rising, with all the power which the mag- 
nitude of proportions can give a sculptured giant pyramid, amid forest and 
* The blocks have been kindly lent by Messrs. Sampson Low & Co. 
