The Pearl of Asia Reminiscences of the Court of a Supreme Monarch Or Five Yea
The Pearl of Asia Reminiscences of the Court of a Supreme Monarch Or Five Yea
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On the third day the temple doors are thrown open, and the people, more especially the women and children, enter, attired 262 THE PEARL OF ASIA.
in their best clothing, and bow down before the idol, and make offerings of flowers, etc. Many of the more wealthy families have on each of those days special prayers and preaching by the priests at their houses, when they feast them, and make offerings of yellow robes and other articles necessary to them as priests.
The religious services are usually ...completed by the end of the second day; the third day is almost univer- sally devoted to games of chance. Men, women and children all join in it with all their hearts, as the laws of the land give them a gratuitous license to gamble on such occasions.
The King keeps these holidays with much ceremony, and with extraordinary religious services, and has companies of priests stationed on the top of the city walls in regular order surrounding the whole city, to perform exorcisms in concert. On the night of the first day, the 14th of the' Siamese moon, guns, large and small, are fired from the tops of the walls from all points of the compass, at intervals of about twenty minutes throughout the night.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
On the third day the temple doors are thrown open, and the people, more especially the women and children, enter, attired 262 THE PEARL OF ASIA.
in their best clothing, and bow down before the idol, and make offerings of flowers, etc. Many of the more wealthy families have on each of those days special prayers and preaching by the priests at their houses, when they feast them, and make offerings of yellow robes and other articles necessary to them as priests.
The religious services are usually ...completed by the end of the second day; the third day is almost univer- sally devoted to games of chance. Men, women and children all join in it with all their hearts, as the laws of the land give them a gratuitous license to gamble on such occasions.
The King keeps these holidays with much ceremony, and with extraordinary religious services, and has companies of priests stationed on the top of the city walls in regular order surrounding the whole city, to perform exorcisms in concert. On the night of the first day, the 14th of the' Siamese moon, guns, large and small, are fired from the tops of the walls from all points of the compass, at intervals of about twenty minutes throughout the night.
What to read after The Pearl of Asia Reminiscences of the Court of a Supreme Monarch Or Five Yea?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Jacob T Child to read onlineMoreLess
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