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Updated: June 22, 2025
Once each year the King visits the various temples in and near Bangkok, travelling in the royal barge, a gorgeously decorated affair rowed by threescore oarsmen The rice-planting ceremony.
The 'Sirwah Purrul, or annual festival of huntsmen. The Hindoo ryot. Rice-planting and harvest. Poverty of the ryot. His apathy. Village fires. Want of sanitation. Writing principally for friends at home, who are not familiar with Indian life, I must narrate facts that, although well known in Indian circles, are yet new to the general reader in England.
The next morning he went to the field to plow, for it was near the rice-planting time. Before he left the house he called to his wife: "When the sun is straight above, you and the baby bring food to me, for I shall be busy in the field."
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