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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32752	A relation of the late embassy of Monsr. de Chaumont, Knt. to the court of the King of Siam with an account of the government, state, manners, religion and commerce of that kingdom.; Relation de l'ambassade de M. le chevalier de Chaumont à la Cour du roi de Siam. English	Chaumont, Alexandre, chevalier de, d. 1710.	1687 (1687)	Wing C3737C; ESTC R6683	53,413	156

the Kingdom of Colconde who were in the King's service and have carried along with them above twenty thousand Catis each Catis being worth fifty Crowns The King of Siam wrote to the King of Colconde to send him back those Fugitives or oblige them to pay the Sum but the King would not listen to the proposal which has put the King of Siam on proclaiming a War against him and taking a Ship at the time when I was at Siam belonging to him whose lading is valued at an hundred thousand Crowns There are six Frigats commanded by English and French who cruise on those Coast Of late the Emperour of China has given leave to all Strangers to come and Negotiate in his Kingdom this permission is onely for five years but 't is hoped it will be continued seeing 't is of great advantage to his Countrey The King of Siam has a great many Malais in his Kingdom they are Mahometans but good Souldiers yet their Religion differs much from the Moors The Pegorans are as numerous in this Countrey as the originary Siamoises There are also a great many Laoises especially towards the North. Here are also eight or nine Families of Native Portuguises but of those which are called Mesties above a thousand that is to say those who are born of Portuguises and Siamoise women The Dutch have there onely one Factory The English the same The French also The Cochinnoises are about an hundred Families most Christians Amongst the Tonquinoises there are seven or eight Christian Families The Malaises are in great numbers who are most of them slaves and who consequently do not make a body The Macassars and several of the People of the Isle of Java are there establish'd as also the Moors under the Name of these last are comprehended Turks Persians Moguls Colcondoises and those of Bengala The Armenians make a separate body they are fifteen or sixteen Families all Christians the greatest part of them are Horsemen of the King's Guard As to the manners of the Siamoises they are a People very docible which proceeds rather from their nature which desires quiet than any other cause and therefore the Talapoins who make profession of this apparent vertue forbid the killing of all sorts of animals yet when any others kill Pullets or Ducks they eat their flesh without troubling themselves who did the murther or wherefore they were killed The Siamoises are generally chaste having but one Wife but the rich People such as the Mandarins have Concubines who remain shut up all their lives The people are trusty and seldom steal but 't is not the same with some of the Mandarins The Malaises who are very numerous in this Kingdom are a very base People and great Thieves In this great Kingdom there are several Pegovans who have been taken in War they are a more stirring and vigorous sort of People than the Siamoises the Women are given to liberty and their conversation is dangerous The Laoises people the fourth part of the Kingdom of Siam and being one half Chinoises they partake of their manners their craft and inclinations to shirk handsomely their Women are white and not ugly very sociable and consequently perilous In the Kingdom of Laos a man that meets a woman to salute her with the accustomed civility kisses her publickly and did he do otherwise he would grievously offend her The Siamoises as well Officers as Mandarins are generally rich for they spend hardly any thing the King giving them Servants who are obliged to maintain themselves at their own cost being as it were slaves they are under an obligation to serve them for nothing half a year and these Masters having many of them they make use of one part whilst the other rest themselves but those who do not serve them pay them every year a sum of money their Victuals are cheap it being onely Rice Fish and little Flesh and there 's great plenty of this in the Countrey their Cloaths last them long being entire pieces of Stuff which do not so soon were out as our Apparel and cost very little Most of the Siamoises are Bricklayers or Carpenters and there are very good workmen amongst them exactly imitating the curious Works of Europe As to Painting they are in a manner ignorant of the use of it there are Carved works in their Pagodes and their Tombs are well polished and very stately They colour finely with Lime which they soak in water which they draw out of a Tree found in the Forests which makes it so lasting that it dures an hundred or two hundred years although exposed to the injury of the weather Their Religion to speak properly is onely a parcel of Fabulous Tales which serve onely to bring respect and profit to the Talapoins who recommend not so much any Vertue to them as that of giving them Money They have Laws which they strictly observe especially outwardly Their end in all their good works is the hope of a happy Transmigration after their death into the body of a rich Man of a King or great Lord or of a tame animal as Cows or Sheep for these People are so far Pythagoreans they for this reason do much esteem these Animals and dare not as I have noted kill any of them as knowing not but they may kill their Father or Mother or some other of their Relations They believe a Hell where great enormities are severely punished onely for a time as also a Paradise wherein men of vertue are rewarded where having become Angels for some time they afterwards return into the Body of some man or other animal The Talapoins chief business is to read sleep eat sing and beg they go every morning to the Houses or Barges of persons they know and stand there for a while with great reservedness holding their Fan so that they cover half their Faces if they see any one disposed to give them any thing they tarry till they have received it they eat whatsoever is given them whether Pullets or any other flesh but they never drink Wine at least before people they perform no office nor prayers to any Divinity The Siamoi●●● believe there have been three great ●alapoins who by their most sublime ●erlts in several thousand Transmigrations have become Gods and having been so have moreover acquired such great merits that they have been wholly annihilated which is the term of the greatest merit and the greatest ecompence attainable being no longer fired by their frequent changes of bodies The last of these three Talaeins is the greatest God called Na●don because he has been in five thousand bodies in one of these Trans●igrations of a Talapoin he became 〈◊〉 Cow his Brother would have killed him several times but there needs a great book to describe the miracles which they say Nature and not God wrought for his preservation In short this Brother was thrown into Hell for his great sins where Nacodon caused him to be crucified and for this foolish reason