Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 2 of 2) / During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860

A traveler's journal recounts journeys through central Indo‑China—Cambodia, Siam, and Laos—with vivid descriptions of landscapes, towns, and great temple complexes. It blends field notes on monuments and architectural details with reflections on their likely antiquity. Ethnographic sketches describe local peoples, languages, customs, ceremonies, and include a brief vocabulary. Natural-history appendices list newly observed mammals, reptiles, fishes, insects, and shells alongside atmospheric measurements and translated local tales. The narrative supplies practical route and port descriptions, illustrations, correspondence, and ends with the final entries noting the traveler's death.