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Updated: July 17, 2025
Bankok! That's what he was after. I tell you this quiet, bowed, bandy-legged, almost deformed little man was immense in the singleness of his idea and in his placid ignorance of our agitation. He motioned us forward with a commanding gesture, and went to take the wheel himself. "Yes; that was the first thing we did trim the yards of that wreck!
'You are a good young man; I noticed how attentive you are to John to Captain The train pulled out suddenly; I took my cap off to the old woman: I never saw her again... Pass the bottle. "We went to sea next day. When we made that start for Bankok we had been already three months out of London. We had expected to be a fortnight or so at the outside.
The boatman who pulled me off to the ship said: 'Hallo! I thought you had left the old thing. She will never get to Bankok. 'That's all you know about it, I said scornfully but I didn't like that prophecy at all. "Suddenly a man, some kind of agent to somebody, appeared with full powers. He had grog-blossoms all over his face, an indomitable energy, and was a jolly soul.
At Singapore, distant 522 miles, two steamers were dispatched to look out for the vessel which was supposed to be firing guns as signals of distress. At Bankok, in Siam, distant 1,413 miles, the report was heard on the 27th; as also at Labuan, in Borneo, distant 1,037 miles.
People pointed us out to visitors as 'That 'ere bark that's going to Bankok has been here six months put back three times. On holidays the small boys pulling about in boats would hail, 'Judea, ahoy! and if a head showed above the rail shouted, 'Where you bound to? Bankok? and jeered. We were only three on board. The poor old skipper mooned in the cabin.
So idle are they that there would be very little trade in Bankok, if it were not for the Chinese, who come over here in crowds, and make sugar, and buy and sell, and get money to take back to China. You may tell in a moment a Chinaman's garden from a Siamese garden; one is so neat and full of flowers; the other is overgrown with weeds and strewn with litter.
The traveller can decide whether to take steamer from Singapore via Bankok, Siam, and do that coast of Asia, and reach Calcutta from the west, or to follow our course via Ceylon. If he has plenty of time, the former may enable him to see more of India; but our experience was that there is more to see by any route than can be properly taken in upon one journey.
PALLEGOIX in his account of Siam, enumerates three species of fishes which leave the tanks and channels and traverse the damp grass ; and SIR JOHN BOWRING, in his account of his embassy to the Siamese kings in 1855, states, that in ascending and descending the river Meinam to Bankok, he was amused with the novel sight of fish leaving the river, gliding over the wet banks, and losing themselves amongst the trees of the jungle.
'He said all these things in profound gasps, staring at me with his yellow eyes out of a long, ravaged, brown face; he jerked his left arm; a pepper-and-salt matted beard hung almost into his lap; a dirty ragged blanket covered his legs. I had found him out in Bankok through that busybody Schomberg, the hotel-keeper, who had, confidentially, directed me where to look.
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