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HOSPITAL
CHOLON-CAMBODIA
Supérieure-Sour Laurence Sept Sœurs
KIM HONG SENG RICE MILL
Khoo Heng Seck, proprietors
Wm. H. Carter, chief engineer E. L. Comar, engineer
KLOSS & CO., Merchants
Walter Kloss (Saigon) Tan Tian San
MAN CHEONG YUEN RICE MILL
Nam Long & Co., general agents
MONT DE PIÉTÉ
N. Reynand V. Léon
MUNICIPAL COUNCIL
Councillors Linger, O. du Crouzet, Berthet, Tran Tuong Thoai, Lam Quan Kien, Ong Phòng Hoa, Khuu Tiet, Lam Thien Tong, Cham Leng Mayor-B. Rossigneux Secretariat
Secretary-G. Guyot Accountant-Passerat de la Chapelle
Roads
Architect of Roads-Cruitard Draftsman-L. Ippolito
Chief Surveyor of Roads-Berthety Overseer of Roads-F. Gonnord
Municipal Treasury Receiver-Costa
Writ Server-Marydassou Police
Commissioner Micheli
Brigadiers-Rivière, Gérolami, Pietri Sub-Brigrs.-Boulanger, Denis, Muller- Municipal Boys' School
Director-Giroux
Professor-Mme. Giroux
Municipal Girls' School
Directress-Sister Adelphe
Teachers-1 French, 2 native Sisters
Municipal Hospital
Directress-Sister Octave
Assistants-3 French, 4 native Sisters Doctor-Sartre, M.F.P.
RIZERIE À VAPEUR DE CHOLON, Quai de
Mytho
A. Linger, ingénr. dirtr. (Saigon) A. Eudel, comptable, do. Marchetti, chef mécanicien Georgi, Otts, mécaniciens
RIZERIE "ORIENT"
C. Speidel & Co., general agents
RIZERIE DE L'UNION
W. & Th. Speidel & Co., general agents
SENG GUAN RICE MILLS
Ngo Chiu Guan, manager
Niel MacIntyre, engineer
CAMBODIA
Cambodia, or the kingdom of the Khmer, as it is called by the natives, extends from 101 deg. 30 min. to 104 deg. 30 min. longitude E. of Paris, and from 10 deg. 30 min. to 14 deg. latitude. It was reduced to its present proportions in 1860 by the annexation of its two richest provinces, Angkor and Battambang, to Siam. Its area is about 62,000 square miles. It is bounded on the south-west by the Gulf of Siam, on the south-east by French Cochin-China, on the north by the French Laos, and on the north-west and west by Angkor and Battambang. The noble river Mekong flows through the kingdom, and after passing through French Cochin-China, empties itself, by a number of mouths, into the sea. The Mekong is the grand waterway of Cambodia, and, like the Nile in Egypt, lays the greater part of the country under water annually, greatly increasing its fertility. The soil of Cambodia is rich and productive, and rice, pepper, indigo, cotton, tobacco, sugar, maize, and cardamoms are cultivated. Coffee and spices of all sorts could be grown. Among woods, ebony, rose, sapan, pine, iron, and other valuable sorts exist, no less than eighty different kinds of timber being found in the forests. Iron of good quality has been discovered, and it is affirmed that there are gold, silver, and lead mines in the mountains. The fisheries of Cambodia are very productive, and salt fish forms one of the chief articles of export.
Cambodia was once an extensive and powerful state, and proofs that it possessed a much higher civilisation than now prevails are to be found in the architectural remnants of former grandeur. The noble ruins of the ancient city of Angkor are monuments of a people much superior to the feeble race which now inhabits Cambodia. The Cambodians differ entirely from their neighbours the Annamites, both in features and customs. Polygamy is practised among them. The prevailing religion is Buddhism. The people are apathetic and indolent, and have allowed the trade to fall into the hands of Chinese,