Siam

Abstract

THE expedition undertaken by Mr. Bock in 1881–82 to the Indo-Chinese mainland was practically a continuation of his previous ramblings in the Eastern Archipelago, graphic account of which he has given us in his “Head-Hunters of Borneo.” Of both the main object appears to have been rather archaeological and ethnographical than strictly scientific, and of both the incidents and results have also been somewhat analogous. In each case some hitherto unvisited tracts were explored, or at least traversed, each was marked by a striking absence of any stirring adventures “by flood or field,” both yielded, besides some additions to our geographical and ethnological knowledge of the regions in question, a considerable amount of “curios and treasure-trove”; but the quest of the “tailed people” proved as bootless in Further India as it had in Borneo.

Temples and Elephants: The Narrative of a Journey through Upper Stain and Lao.

By Carl Bock. (London: Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., 1884.)