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He Shewed Much Respect To The Christian Priests And Missionaries, And Gave Great Encouragement To The Propagation Of The Gospel In His Dominions. His Valour Was Without The Smallest Stain.

[Footnote 27:

De Faria seems now to drop the fables of Fernan Mendez Pinto, and to relate real events in the remainder of this section. - E.]

[Footnote 28: More properly Ythia, vulgarly called Siam. - E.]

The proper name of the kingdom we call _Siam_, is _Sornace_[29]. It extends along the coast for 700 leagues, and its width inland is 260. Most part of the country consists of fertile plains, watered by many rivers, producing provisions of all sorts in vast abundance. The hills are covered with a variety of trees, among which there are abundance of ebony, brasilwood, and _Angelin_. It contains many mines of sulphur, saltpetre, tin, iron, silver, gold, sapphires, and rubies; and produces much sweet-smelling wood, benzoin, wax, cinnamon, pepper, ginger, cardamunis, sugar, honey, silk, and cotton. The royal revenue is about thirteen millions. The kingdom contains 13,000 cities and towns, besides innumerable villages. All the towns are walled; but the people for the most part are weak timorous and unwarlike. The coast is upon both seas; that which is on the sea of India, or bay of Bengal, containing the sea ports of _Junzalam_[30], and _Tanasserim_; while on the coast of the China sea, are _Mompolocata_, _Cey_, _Lugor_, _Chinbu_, and _Perdio_.

[Footnote 29: The oriental term _Shan_, probably derived from the inhabitants of Pegu; but the Siamese call themselves _Tai_, or freemen, and their country _Meuang tai_, or the country of freemen - E.]

[Footnote 30:

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