Excerpt from Spears of Deliverance: A Tale of White Men and Brown Women in Siam Philip had already heard a little about the institution of the mia in Siam. In a Siamese household the mia is of varying degrees. Polygamy, despite its having been recently discountenanced in high quarters in the land, is still legally recognised and, notwithstanding a slight dash of civilisation in many other directions, is still gener ally practised. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic ...
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Excerpt from Spears of Deliverance: A Tale of White Men and Brown Women in Siam Philip had already heard a little about the institution of the mia in Siam. In a Siamese household the mia is of varying degrees. Polygamy, despite its having been recently discountenanced in high quarters in the land, is still legally recognised and, notwithstanding a slight dash of civilisation in many other directions, is still gener ally practised. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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