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Excerpt from On Some Siamese InscriptionsWhich he, (a very interesting circumstance, ) calls Lai -su. The present wo1d for books 1n the Siamese language 1s Nangsa, pronounced by a fanciful whim and against all rules of Siamese grammar, as Nong-sfa. N ang-eu means verbally the writing on skins (nang), and thus illustrates in a strik ing way, the old traditions of the Lawa