'A most interesting description of journey to the ruins of Angkor, the wonderful memorial of a vanished civilization, was described by M. Maybon, Principal of the French Municipal School, in aa address to members of the Royal Asiatic Society on Tuesday afternoon. Sir Everard Fraser presided over a large attendance of members.
I should like, said M. Maybon in the course of his address, by means of the attractive pictures which are going to be placed before you, to kindle the- desire in your hearts to go and admire the wonders of Angkor; the trip is easy, guides sre not wanting, I would gladly furnish the information which might be required, and believe me, none of you would regret the trouble of the journey. You have most of you heard of the famous Monuments which the Khmér genius erected on the edge of the Great Lake in Cambodia, the protection of which has since 1907 been entrusted to France.
Tt was towards the sixth century that Oambodis apparently became an independent kingdom on the lower Mekong. and from that period tenplss_jwere encted everywhere.
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