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however, he did not succeed. The Emperor.........

after many supplications was persuaded not to take
the life of his son and his followers, provided that
they all should leave China and that they should
wander as outlaws and never return again.

"These exiles tried to populate uninhabited
countries and to extend their power. They travelled
first through the land of Chiampa, after that Cambodia,
from where they sailed with their boats to the Gulf of
Siam. They first landed at the cape now called Cuy,
settled down there and built a town, and to show
their thankfulness to the gods erected a fine temple

and many pyramids. .........At last the place Judia

was found where at that time there stood only a small
temple (which is still existing) and where seven
hermits were living, who resembled each other exact-
ly, and were all children of parents who had also the
same appearance."1

We can accept this tradition of a Chinese Prince
establishing the kingdom of Siam, because it was from
China that the first wave of civilisation came to Siam.

After the Chinese wave, there catne the wave of
Indian colonists. Though, Siam in the early times
was included in the kingdom of Camboja, yet she was
receiving batches of Indian colonists on her soil from
time to time, A Tamil inscription, which has been

1. Journal of the Siam Society, Vol. VII (1910) parti,
pp. 6-7.