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The labor of Siam is done by Chinese coolies; for the native workers are hampered by a law which requires them to give one-fourth of their labor to the state. Domestic elephants are used in hauling timber, for teak is one of the products of the forests, and also for travel and as bearers of burdens.
There are also the mulberry, the clove, the nutmeg, the camphor, and pepper-trees; in fact all the spice-trees and all the tropical fruits. The forests contain some valuable kinds of wood, ebony, iron-wood, teak, famous for its strength and employed from the most ancient times in costly buildings, and the Calilaban laurel, which yields an aromatic essential oil that is highly prized.
Thereafter, I was in a vast hall, in a beautiful place for all the world like a temple; with a gallery running round about it, and lamps swinging from the gallery, and an organ built high up in a niche above the far end, and doors of teak giving off all round, and a great oak fire-place such as you see in English houses; and all round the dome of this wonderful room great brass-bound windows, upon which the sea thundered and the foam sprayed.
I ain't put it anywhere. You know that." "Don't play the giddy goat," said the other, testily. "Where've you hid it? Is it safe?" Mr. Chase leaned back in his chair and, shaking his head at him, smiled approvingly. "You're a little wonder, that's what you are, Gussie," he remarked. "No wonder your pore wife is took in so easy." Mr. Teak sprang up in a fury. "Don't play the fool," he said hoarsely.
It is a rich country, with four magnificent rivers reaching nearly its whole length, furnishing abundant facilities for cheap travel and commerce, and carrying fertility into all sections of the land. It is the land of rice, of teak, and of oil. These are the triple sources of Burmese industry, commerce, and wealth.
It looks so cheap to have little bits of precious woods stuck about." "I should think so. But what do you do with the ebony?" "Oh, the ebony and gold? That is the adjoining sitting-room such a pretty contrast." "And the teak?" "It has such a beautiful polish. That is another room. Carmen says that will be our sober room, where we go when we want to repent of things."
And, the guardsman at her side, the others in her train, she ascended the little hill on which her castle was, and where the midday meal awaited. It was a charming residence. Built quadrangularwise, the court held a fountain which was serviceable to those that wished to bathe. The roof was a garden. The interior façade was of teak wood, carved and colored; the frontal was of stone.
Then across the strip of moonlit, to sleep my lone, under the hospitable teak roof-trees of "a Binning!" Here there seems to be a hiatus in these notes of mine it is rather a jump from the British India steamer to a Gymkhana dance? But such a break gives relief to the mind, and has sometimes even a dramatic effect.
"What what's the matter?" he said, hastily. Mrs. Teak raised her voice to a pitch that set his teeth on edge. "My money!" she wailed. "It's all gone! All gone!" "Money?" repeated Mr. Teak, hardly able to contain himself. "What money?" "All all my savings!" moaned his wife. "Savings!" said the delighted Mr. Teak. "What savings?" "Money I have been putting by for our old age," said his wife.
Above was the lofty poop-deck, with one of the rudder-windlasses on it, and the mizzen-mast, fifty feet long, and placed on one side, in order to allow the tiller to work when in shallow water. The main-mast was ninety-five feet in length, and ten feet in circumference at the bottom. It was one spar of teak, and just as the tree grew with merely the bark taken off.
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