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The main hall consisted
of a bare hall with a few
prayer mats on the stone
floor. Facing the center
behind is the immense coat
of the Siamtown Guild Hall.
This large granite slab column
& great halls with ancestral
panels, soldiers with their
rifles were quartered here
as they were in Nan Kall
of the temples visited in
Santor. The government
has at this time a large
garrison of troops in Santor
to suppress rebellions. In the
garden of the hall was an
artificial mountain made
of pieces of gray limestone
held together by mortar -
& holding in some places
& cliffs miniature temples
I saw a few fish tail palaces
green & bamboo trees in