we leave our cart at a large church, the work of a former Suave [Zouave], R.P. Desalles, started a few years earlier with a few ticals and whose clock tower now dominates the city, not without having caused for that reason some displeasure to the Siamese. It has been built without an architrct, thanks to the intelligence and persistence of the good priest, who had begged everywhere and acquired the tiles, cobblestones, and building stones from the king, salvaged from the ruins of I do not know which abandoned royal building in the vicinity.