Daniel McGilvary, a North Carolinian who went to Siam in 1858, tells how he settled at Bangkok and Phetchaburi and then founded the Presbyterian mission among the northern Tai people at Chiang Mai. He describes long journeys by elephant and river, princes and villagers, epidemics, persecutions and the slow growth of the churches.
An important first-hand source on nineteenth-century northern Thailand. Download the free EPUB.