ELEPHANT

from China) of sages, g+~ilts, ~varri~rs, griffins,
nondescripts, 6ic.
In ret-urning to the hoteI we
stopped at n float-ing booth where a
cnkrlainment %.as irr progrcw. 'fie dresses of the
performers wcrc rich, mil the ac-ting was much in t3c
Chinese style, thozigh thcrc was perllaps not- so rrlucl~
want.ing, thc voiccs being pitched to a more natuml
k c A pat prt of the ilial~uc was in vem ; and
t.lie accompanying rnusic was most primi t.iw ant1 droll,
consisting simply of beating two bboo sticks
together.
A band of three ' picccs ' was dm in
at.tcndancc, md the music diwoursed was of a lively
character, and veq much resembled some of the
Scotdl and Irish airs. The play was grwq and
obscenc throughout, as Is usually thc case among
eastern nations. The Siai11wc sc :dike fou~l of thcir
national music arid drama.
In company with the CorisuLttc inkrpretcr, ' Hen5 '
- a good-naturd, intelligent Siamese, who slwke
English quite R-c1I-I \yisitd othcr of thc knlples mrl
pagodas of Bangkok. To thc Wat Suh Pruh Tan,
situated without thc c-ity walls, we were admitted by
the porter in charge, after pajbg a silver tical (abut
60 cts.) At one extremity of this temple was a 1,qe
gild& imagc of Budha, with a d e r onc just in