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city is about two leagues around; it 
has five gates, each double, the one 
looking east having two openings, 
the rest only one. Outside the gates 
is a wide moat, and beyond the moat 
causeways with great bridges. On 
each side of the bridge are fifty-four 
statues of stone representing the 
gods. . . . The piles of the bridges 
are all of stone, and the arches in 
the form of a serpent having nine 
heads. The fifty-four statues to¬ 
gether carry a mighty serpent as if 
for the defence of the passage.” 
The wealth of the city is evinced 
by the fact that many of the statues 
were covered with gold, as well as 
the bridge itself and figures of lions 
at the right and left of it. Within 
the city, and to the north of the 
bridge of gold, was the palace of the 
king. The tower of the palace where 
the king passed the night was also 
TEMPLE GARDENS OF EIGHT 
HUNDRED YEARS AGO 
Banyans, Bananas, Cocoanut and 
Areca Palms, Teak, Pomegranate, 
Fig, Almond and many other trees 
“odoriferous and beautiful, as well 
as an infinite number of flowers” 
flourished in these ancient gardens 
of the Malay Peninsula 
ONE OF THE MANY TOWERS 
OF ANGKOR WAT 
“The pointed arches which rise one above the 
other to the pinnacle of the tower consist chiefly 
of the many-headed serpent, a prominent fea¬ 
ture in the architectural decorations of an al¬ 
most unknown and highly developed people 
amidst the jungle of the past” 
THE BAYON AT ANGKOR THOM 
An amazing palace in the capital city of Cambodia said to have 
fifty-three elaborate towers each decorated with four heads 
of Buddha and many representations of the sacred serpent 
A n interesting 
L account of the pe¬ 
culiarities of agriculture 
and gardening there at 
the end of the 13th Cen- 
covered with gold, as was likewise a tower to the south of the palace 
and near the bridge. Near the gate was an enclosed garden half a 
league in circumference, details concerning which we will take up later. 
The temple of Angkor Wat was about a mile from the city. It 
was surrounded by a moat thirty rods wide, which was crossed 
by a great stone causeway leading to a massive tower in the wall. 
1 his opened into an enclosure about half by three-quarters of 
a mile in size. From the tower the stone boulevard, at each side 
of which were gardens of flowers and bushes, led to the Wat or 
temple. This was built of gray sand-stone of three terraces rising one 
above another, the 
tower mounting to a 
height of more than 
two hundred feet. At 
that time there were 
three principal religions 
in the city, the Bud¬ 
dhist, Tao-sse, and Pa¬ 
sse. 
The walls, corridors, 
and halls of the city and 
temples were crowded 
with miles of reliefs por¬ 
traying gods, mythol¬ 
ogy, battle scenes, kings 
and queens, as well as 
interesting bits from 
everyday life. Thou¬ 
sands of heads of Bud¬ 
dha, and numberless 
sacred Nagas or many- 
headed serpents, 
crowded the corners 
and cornices, and over¬ 
awed the beholders. 
