Siamese White

Maurice Collis was an English officer and a profound writer. He served as an administrator in Burma, which at that time was a British colony. After entering into the Indian Civil Service, he served in Palestine in 1917. He was appointed as a district commissioner in Arakan in the 1920s, and in 1930 as a district magistrate in Rangoon. He is the author of several memoirs, biographies, history, fiction, drama, and other miscellaneous topics. His works include the famous work Trials in Burma; Stanley Spencer: A Biography; The Grand Peregrination: Being the Life and Adventures of Fernão Mendes Pinto, etc.

• Part One: Introductory1 White Goes East 32 M3 The Company 84 Captain Alley and Co. 125 Trade and Security 166 Across the Bay 197 Mergui 238 An Emporium of the Coast Trade 279 The Forest Belt 3010 Old Ayudhya 3511 White Meets Phaulkon 4012 Elephants 4613 Phaulkon Emerges 5314 Lord White 5715 Apostates and Renegades 61Part Two: The Davenport Papers16 White Turns Filibuster 7317 A Pirate in a River 8018 The Capture of Devenport 9119 Captain Coates and his Opium 10220 White Increases the Pace 10721 White is Recalled to Ayudhya 11122 The Sorrowful Journey 11523 White's Desperate Sickness 11824 The Fierce Fight with the Macassars 12825 Phaulkon offers to makes White Prime Minister 13726 White make Hay 14527 Doubts and Rumours 15528 The Four Alternatives 16029 White Prepares to Escape Part Three: Conclusion 275Appendices 303\Index 317