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The English Governess at the Siamese Court - Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Anna Harriette Leonowens
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XII. SHADOWS AND WHISPERS OF THE HAREM
XIII. FA-YING, THE KING'S DARLING
XIV. AN OUTRAGE AND A WARNING
XV. THE CITY OF BANGKOK
XVI. THE WHITE ELEPHANT
XVII. THE CEREMONIES OF CORONATION
XVIII. THE QUEEN CONSORT
XIX. THE HEIR-APPARENT.--ROYAL HAIR-CUTTING
XX. AMUSEMENTS OF THE COURT
XXI. SIAMESE LITERATURE AND ART
XXII. BUDDHIST DOCTRINE, PRIESTS, AND WORSHIP
XXIII. CREMATION
XXIV. CERTAIN SUPERSTITIONS
XXV. THE SUBORDINATE KING
XXVI. THE SUPREME KING: HIS CHARACTER AND ADMINISTRATION
XXVII. MY RETIREMENT FROM THE PALACE
XXVIII. THE KINGDOM OF SIAM
XXIX. THE RUINS OF CAMBODIA.--AN EXCURSION TO THE NAGHKON WATT
XXX. THE LEGEND OF THE MAHA NAGHKON

[Illustration: Fac-Simile of Letter from present Supreme King of Siam:
Transcription follows:]

Amarinde Winschley
Palace Bangkok
March 6th 1869

Mrs. A. H. Leonowens
New York

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