Excerpt from Bangkok Calendar, for the Year of Our Lord 1862: Corresponding to the Siamese Civil Era 1223-4, and Nearly So to the Chinese Cycle Era 4499, Being the 59th Year of the 75th Chinese Cycle of 60 The asterisks placed in the column of Siamese days of Moon, denote the days which the Buddhists hold in some degree sacred. The calculations for the rising and setting of the Sun and Moon are for Bangkok Mean time. The Sun's declinations are for Apparent Noon at Bangkok. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.