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book—The Voyage of Mr. Ralph Smith, Merchant
of London. He went "to Ormuz, and so to Goa in
the East-Indies, to Cambaia, Ganges, Bengala; to
Bacola and Chonderi, to Pegu; and Jamahay in the
kingdom of Siam, and back to Pegu; and thence to
Malacca, Zeilan, Cochin, and all the coast of the East-
India.'5
In 1690, Dr, Engelbert Kaempfer, wbo was phy-
sician to the Dutch Embassy to the Japanese Emperor's
Court, wrote in High Dutch The History ofJapan^
in which he gave " a description of the kingdom of
Siam." In the Journal of Siam Society (IV, pt. 3,
1909) Dr. (X Frankfurter, Ph. D. wrote an article
entitled—" Some Remarks on Kaempfer's Description
of Siam, 1690."
In 1771 a french writer published an account of
the civil administration and natural history of Siam in
Histoire civile et naturelle du royaume de Siam. It
also contains an account of the revolutions which
caused the overthrow of the Empire in 1770.
It is interesting to note that as early as 1852 a.
book on Siam was published from Calcutta. It was
known as Siam: some general remarks on its produc-
tions by D. E* Malloch.
Other well-known English travellers had visited
Siam even before Malloch. Of these English writers,
mention must be made of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles,
who was the English governor of Java for sometime.