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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

Wars and they being enemies to labour they love onely those things that are easie so that those Plains and Forests which are to be seen on the Mountains serve for a retreat to Elephants Tygers and wild Cows Deer and Rhinocero's and other Animals which are here in great quantities As to Plants and Fruits there are several in the Countrey but which are not of great use and which cannot be easily brought over by reason of the length of the way There are no Birds but what we have in Europe excepting one like a Black-bird which counterfeits the laughing of a Man his singing and whistling the Fruits the most esteemed are Durions they have a very strong scent which does not agree with every body but as to their taste 't is excellent This fruit is very hot and dangerous to ones health if a Man eats much of it There is a great Nut about which is a kind of Cream shut in a rine which my Palate could never approve of Mango is in this Countrey in prodigious quantities and this is the best Fruit in the Indies of an exquisite taste no ways incommoding unless a Man eats too much of them then indeed they may cause a Fever it 's like an Almond but as big as a large Pear The Mangoustan is a Fruit like a green Nut which has within it a white Fruit of a sharp and pleasant taste like that of a Peach or Plum it 's very cold and yet stringent The Jacques is a great Fruit which is very good but hot and causes Fluxes in the Bowels when one eats of it with excess The Nana is like the Durion that is to say in respect of its Skin it has at its end a crown of leaves like the Artichoke its meat is very good tasting like a Peach and Apricock together it 's very hot and strong which makes it commonly eaten soakt in Wine The Figs are a sweet Fruit of a kind nature yet somewhat phlegmatick there are of them all the year long The Ate is a very good sweet Fruit and does no hurt there are who esteem it more than all the Fruits in the Indies There are Oranges of all kinds which are very good The Pataie is a very good Fruit but the Tree which bears it lives onely two years The Penplemouse is a wholesome Fruit which is like the Orange but of a sharper taste There are several other Fruits which are not so good They began some years past to sow Corn in the high Countries near the Mountains which comes up well and is very good As also Vines which have been several times planted but to little purpose being eaten up to the roots by a sort of Ants. There are a great many Sugar Canes which yield abundance as also Tobacco which the Siamoises eat with Arrek and Lime As to the Arrek the Siamoises esteem this Fruit more than any other for this is their common food there is such a great quantity of it that the Markets are full of it and a Siamoise would think himself guilty of a great undecency should he speak to any one without having his mouth full of Arrek Betel or Tobacco There is no City in the East where is seen more different Nations than in the Capital Town of Siam and where so many different Tongues are spoken it is two Leagues round and half a League long well peopled although so much under water that it resembles rather an Island there are none but English French Moors and Chinoises who dwell in the Town all the other Nations being lodged round about it in Camps each Nation by themselves who should they come all of them into one body would take up as much room as the Town does but the reasons I before mentioned hinder most strange Nations to come and bring any thing with them The people are obliged to serve the King four months in the year and longer if he needs them he gives them no pay they being obliged to keep themselves and therefore the Women work to maintain their Husbands As to the Officers from the greatest Lords of the Court to the meanest of the Kingdom the King onely allows them some small gratifications being as much slaves as the rest and this saves a great deal of money As to far distant Provinces whose Inhabitants do not actually serve each singular person pays him a Tribute I arrived at a time when the Countrey was wholly under water the Town seemed the more pleasant for it the Streets are very long large and streight there are on both hands Houses built on Piles and Trees planted round about them which makes a fine sight and you cannot go to them but in a Boat you would think you see at one look a City a Sea and a vast Forest where are several Pagodes which are their Churches most of which are gilded about these Pagodes there are places like Church-Yards planted with Trees which are for the most part Fruit-Trees the Houses of the Talapoins are the biggest and finest and are very numerous This Countrey is wholsomer than any of the Indies the Siamoises are commonly well shap'd although all of them have tanned Countenances they are well sized their Hair black which they wear short by reason of the heat they Bathe often which contributes to the preservation of their health the Europeans who dwell there do the same to avoid sickness They go about all their business in Barges during the Inundations which lasts six or seven months together The King rises in the morning and holds a great Council about ten of the Clock wherein all affairs are treated of which being ended his Physicians assemble to know the state of his health and he afterwards goes to Dinner he makes but one real Meal a day and after Dinner he withdraws into his Apartment where he sleeps two or three hours and 't is not known about what he imploys himself the rest of the time it not being permitted his Officers to enter into his Chamber About ten at night he holds another privy Council where there are seven or eight Mandarins of those which are most in his favour which Council lasts till mid night Afterwards he has Histories or Verses made after their manner read to him to divert him and commonly after this Council Mr. Constans tarries with him alone to whom he opens his whole mind the King being sensible of his vast parts his Conversation pleases him and he seldom can get away till three of the clock in the morning and this is the manner of the King 's living At certain times he takes pleasure in hunting as I already observed he is always well drest He has no other Children but a Daughter who is called the Princess Queen of twenty seven or twenty eight years of age the King greatly loves her I was told she was a handsome woman but she has never been seen by any men she eats in the same place and at the same time her Father does