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In 1826, he wrote—The Mission io Siam} and Hue
the capital of Cochin China ^ in the years 2821- 2. It was
collected from the Journal of the late George Finlayson,
a surgeon and Naturalist.
Another famous English traveller was John
Crawfured, \vho published his Journal of an Embassy
from the Governor- General of India to the courts of
Siam and Cochin-China^ exhibiting a view of the
actual state of those kingdoms^ in 1828. He also
wrote about Siam in 1828 in the Siam Repository
(Vol. I.oct 1869).
After Crawfured, we get another English writer
on Siam, named Captain James Law, who contributed
many interesting articles in the Asiatic Researches*
In 1836, he wrote on the Government of Siam (As.
Res, 1836, p. 246). In the same year, he wrote on
Siamese Literature (As. Res, 1836, p. 338).
In 1857 an important book on Siam was brought
out by Sir John Bowring under the name of The
kingdom and People of Siam: with a narrative of the
Mission to that country in 1855. It contains the
history, an account of the manners, customs, supersti-
tions, amusements, legislation, language, literature and
religion of Siam.
in 1871 Henry Alabaster published The Wheel
of the Law, which gives an account of the Siamese
Buddhism and the Siamese version of the life of
Gautama Buddha.