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Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume VIII, No. 5 [12r] (26/154)
The record is made up of 1 volume (73 folios). It was created in Nov 1896. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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The
Geographical Journal.
No. 5. NOVEMBER, 1896. Vol. VIII.
JOURNEY ROUND SIAM.*
By J. S. Black. First Assistant of Her Majesty's Consular Service in Siam.
Within recent times the importance and magnitude of British interests
in Siam have been, by the course of events in that country, brought
prominently before the public. These interests arise from the presence
of large numbers of British subjects and the investment of British
capital in the various industries of the country. Our subjects are not
only English people, but Indians, Malays, Burmese, and Chinese; in
fact, every species of Asiatic who can lay claim to have been born in
British possessions, and they are to be found not only at Bangkok, the
capital of Siam, but are scattered in thousands throughout the most
distant parts of the kingdom. The great proportion of this foreign
population is composed of Burmese or Shans, who migrate from their
homes into the adjoining Siamese territory as traders or gem-diggers.
By virtue of the existing treaties with Siam, all her Majesty’s Asiatic
subjects are entitled to Consular protection and assistance, and the object
of the journey which forms the subject-matter of the paper to-night
was to hold district courts, settle a number of long-pending disputes
between British subjects and Siamese in the provinces, and generally
acquire information regarding the nature of British interests in these
little-known regions.
I shall not in this paper allude to the details of my official business,
but I may be permitted here to remark that I was occasionally ex
tremely busy, and, after a hard day’s work as Consular Court Judge
(the Court sometimes consisting of a tent and the bench of a small camp
table), I did not feel much inclined to worry the natives in search of
that precise and scientific information which one ought to be able to
* Paper read at the Eoyal Geographical Society, April 27, 1896. Map, p. 540.
No. V. —November, 1896.] 2 a
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A summary of the journal's contents appears on folio 2 and the entire contents are listed on folio 3.
The contents of the journal are as follows.
Articles:
- 'Journey Round Siam' by John Sutherland Black (ff 12-23), and a map (f 70)
- 'A Journey in the Valley of the Upper Euphrates' by Vincent Wodehouse Yorke (ff 24-34)
- 'De Morgan's "Mission Scientifique" to Persia' by Major-General Sir Frederic John Goldsmid (ff 34-36)
- 'Railways in Africa' by Major Leonard Darwin (ff 41-50), and a map (f 91)
- 'From Teheran [Tehran] Towards the Caspian' by Henry Lake Wells (ff 50-56).
Other items:
- Recommendation books on East and South Africa (ff 36-38)
- An account of a meeting of the British Association, Liverpool, September 1896 (ff 38-41)
- The Monthly Record (ff 56-60)
- Obituary (ff 60-61)
- Correspondence (ff 61-62)
- Geographical Literature of the Month (ff 62-68)
- New Maps (ff 68-69).
The journal features advertisements at the front and rear.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (73 folios)
- Written in
- English in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- Mss Eur F111/393, ff 2-76
- Title
- Geographical Journal(Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume VIII, No. 5
- Pages
- 3r:75v
- Author
- The Geographical Journal xx Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London xx Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography
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- ©Royal Geographical Society
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- Mss Eur F111/393, ff 2-76
- Title
- Geographical Journal(Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume VIII, No. 5
- Pages
- 12r:23v, 70r:70v
- Author
- Black, John Sutherland
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- ©Royal Geographical Society
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