Thanks to the fact that nowadays more and more books are digitized we are able to read books that are some times for decades no longer available for the public for several reasons. That’s quite a pity while these books contains useful information while the archives are destroyed, incomplete or nor accessible. In his history of all nations in the world Goodrich also published some dealing with their navies. Especially for the Asiatic navies every piece of information is valuable.
p. 549: The Siamese make good brass cannon, some of them very large. At Ban[g]kok something of a navy is maintained, consisting of war junks, galleys, &c., built on the Cochin Chinese model, and mounting heavy guns; but the Siamese are very poor sailors. Most of the commerce is carried on in foreign vessels, principally Chinese junks. More than two hundred of the latter visit Ban[g]kok in a year; some of them are of above a thousand tons' burden. Numerous prows and small junks carry on a coasting trade. The total of the export from Ban[g]kok is not less than five millions of dollars a year.
Source
S.G. Goodrich. History of all nations, from the earliest periods to the present time; or, Universal History: in which the history of very nation, ancient and modern, is separately given. New York, 1856.
p. 549: The Siamese make good brass cannon, some of them very large. At Ban[g]kok something of a navy is maintained, consisting of war junks, galleys, &c., built on the Cochin Chinese model, and mounting heavy guns; but the Siamese are very poor sailors. Most of the commerce is carried on in foreign vessels, principally Chinese junks. More than two hundred of the latter visit Ban[g]kok in a year; some of them are of above a thousand tons' burden. Numerous prows and small junks carry on a coasting trade. The total of the export from Ban[g]kok is not less than five millions of dollars a year.
Source
S.G. Goodrich. History of all nations, from the earliest periods to the present time; or, Universal History: in which the history of very nation, ancient and modern, is separately given. New York, 1856.
