3-017-256 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Admiral King's visit to the King of Siam at Bangkok: procession from the royal landing place to the Palace, 1865. Engraving of a sketch by Mr. R. Campbell Bates, an officer of the Princess Royal, showing '... the procession on land...Some of the officers (the two under the umbrellas being Admiral King and Mr. T. G. Knox, the English Consul) were provided with chairs carried by four coolies, while others were mounted on horseback. There were twenty-two officers of the Princess Royal, and four of the Consulate, with fifty or sixty sailors and marines...The ruling King of Siam...holds his court in the city or Bangkok, and his name is no less than Phra Bard Somdetch Phra Paramendr Maha Mongkut Phra Chom Klau Chau Tu Hua...The trade of Siam, especially the export of rice to China, and that of teak-wood for ship-building, has since the Treaty of 1855 become very important...The visit of Vice-Admiral King, C.B., Commander-in-Chief of our squadron on the China station, to the Court of Bangkok, on the 13th of June, was attended with fresh tokens of the respect and good-will there felt towards the English people'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.