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Title: Travels in the central parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos : during the years 1858, 1859, and 1860
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Mouhot, Henri, 1826-1861 Mouhot, Charles
Subjects: Mouhot, Henri, 1826-1861
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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as Boatioume. The banks be-come more and more picturesque; here are calcareousrocks, covered in places with a ferruginous crust, andwhence flow streams endowed with petrifying properties,while hills, rising abruptly to a great height, containgrottoes ornamented by stalactites; there, are beds ofsand, islands on which sport in the sun a crowd of iguanas;everywhere, a rich vegetation, mingled with tufts of bam-boo, in which fight and squabble the chimpanzees, onwhom Phrai exercises his skill, and which afford him adelicious repast. We embarked in a very light pirogue, and, during thefirst day, passed the boats from Petchaboune, which hadleft Khao-Khoc the night before; for the current is stillrapid, even though the water is so low that in many 102 TIGERS NEAR BOATIOUME. Chap. XVI. places you have to drag the boat over the sand, and poleshave to be used instead of oars. Tigers, which are rare at Khao-Khoc, are more commonin the environs of Boatioume, where they destroy manyof the cattle.
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CHAPTER XVII Town of Chaiapume— Journey to the Town of Korat— TheProvince of Korat — Temple of Penom-Wat— Eeturn toChaiapume — Poukieau — Monang-Moune-Wa — Nam-Kane —liouang prabang, capital of west laos. On tlie 28th February, 1863, I arrived at the town ofChaiapume, and presented myself before the governorto request his permission to hire some elephants or oxento enable me to continue my journey. I showed him myFrench passport, and also gave him the letter from KhroinLuang, and another from the Governor of Korat; but allin vain. He replied that, if I wanted oxen or elephants,there were plenty in the forest. I might easily have donewithout the assistance of this functionary, and procuredanimals from people in the village; but they would havemade me pay two or three times the ordinary price, andmy purse was too slenderly filled to allow of my sub-mitting to this extortion, which would probably berepeated at every station. The only thing left me to do, therefore, was to

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