The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-17
MALhYS FRIENDLY
 10 LONE TRAVELLER

Rangoon, Nov 17.-Char&s w. Blythe, an Englishman who is jour neying on foot from Singapore to Calais. France, and London, recently arrived in Rangoon and is now on his way to Calcutta He intends to pursue his way through nortLerH l,tt Lit- dia Ba1uchistan and Persla to ShaI- el-rab, wbence he will follow Lne Euphrates to it's source and make ms way through Asia Minor ana Europe' He hopes to arrive m EnSldhu py tIIe end of 1923.
 MT, Blythe. who has already cover ed 2100 miles of his trip, thinks that his last 200 miles in Siam constituted as difficult a country as he shall ever encounter. He carries no firearms or weapons of any kind, and has not yet had need of any. q His pack WelgIS from 20 to 40 pounds and consists of clothes, food, maps, notebooks ana simple camp utensils
 Maiays and Burnnans, the traveller says, are the most friendly people ne has encountered so far The Siamese he ranks last although none of them have been definitely unfriendly.
 Describing some of the adventures he has had since leaving Singapore last May, MT. Blythe says, in part;
 'fI wished to traverse Siam with all nv troubles commenced. Roads in the interior of Siam are none exist ant Even cartrOadS are termed by courtesy. For two days l travelled by earth paths. sleeipng in farmers houses until reached Patalung, which is a railway town not far from the coast The place being infested with mosquitoes, I requested the sta ton master to allow me to sleep m the waiting room, which request he granted.
 jungle again, although farms and viii 9ages were frequent. All this time was guiding myself northward by the sun, every day or two tacling r. on rail q n the direction. There was but little fear of losing my way as the noun tains ran parallel to the sea, leaving between a strip of plain, varying from ten to 70 miles in width. The large villages are located between the coast and the railway.
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 ''It was remarkable that I encoun- tered no wild animals and very few snakes which sometimes l killed and som netiInes avoided. The natives were generaIIy friendly enough, although our intercourse was limited owing to my defective siamese vocabulary.
 Some 40 miles north of Chumpon, I was very puzzled to account for the fact that large eXpanseE of the hillsides were cleared and used aas grazing grounds for cattle, as had not credited the Siamese with suffi- cient energy to clear large areas of hill jungle. I was told that some 60 years ago a terrific tempest swept across the isthmus of kra and de 
 t'F'rom PrechCap Kirikan the coun- try became Siam 0f the picture books -pagOdas perched. on seemingly in accessible cragS, natives clad in bril- liant-Colored clothing; quaint oNcarts; priests and monks and mOnaSter1eS; herds of vicious-looking water buf- faloes, and rice fields everywhere.
 ''I entered Bangkok, July 23, exact ly two months after leaving Singa- pore. Bangkok like most large towns of the East, is a cufious mixture of West and East, the old and the new. PalatiaI reinforced concrete buildings are jostled by wretched novels; foul smelling, winding lanes lead from spacious boulevards PasodaS stand a stones throw from churches.
 ''The old walls of Bangkok are 0 fine example of the Notifications as understood by the Oriental nations. Miles in length. aVera Sing 30 feet in height by some 20 in thickness and built of massive blocks of gran ite. they present a fine spectacle. The government houses are built of stone and .are imposing structures About half a, dozen of the far-famed white elephants are housed there. The tramway service in Bangkok is the most comfortable of all I have tested in Asia.
 "At Ban Dara. my northern most limit ia Siam. turned southwest. and arrived in D rslatively large town named S3lwankalole While talking with the schoolmaster he iokingly remarked that I was a spy The local chief of police immediately became enamored with the idea, and spent an uncomfortable 30 minutes reliev- ing his doubts"