Spears Of Deliverance A Tale Of White Men And Brown Women In Siam PDF Download

Excerpt from Spears of Deliverance: A Tale of White Men and Brown Women in Siam Santall stopped speaking and followed the direction of his companion's astonished eyes. "I wish Garstin or someone would tell that girl to keep downstairs in daylight," he muttered with considerable warmth. Arrayed in the sketchy attire evolved by the Bangkok bachelor in search of comfort, the two men were seated in the porch-verandah of Mess 73 Suriwongse. Santall affected a singlet and a chequered sarong, or Malay kilt, while the new arrival, Philip Harkness, was more elegant in a shirt and a pair of baggy Chinese silk trousers of a delicate purple hue. Philip had already heard a little about the institution of the mia in Siam. In a Siamese household the "mia" is of varying degrees. Polygamy, despite its having been recently discountenanced in high quarters in the land, is still legally recognised and, notwithstanding a slight dash of "civilisation" in many other directions, is still generally practised. As in the feudal past, even nowadays a Siamese gentleman of wealth still finds his influence and his importance estimated in the vulgar computation to a large extent by the number of women in his household. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.