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the first available boat, stopping at Pnom Penh on the way.
  
[[underlined]] CAPTAIN ON [[/underlined]] On the boat to Pnom Penh I had an illuminating talk with a cultivated native gentleman, Captain On, a member of one of the local princely houses. He was a keen student of Indo-Chinese languages, arch^[[a]]eology, and ethnology. I regretted that it was impossible to accept his invitation to visit him at Battambang, there to follow up his suggestive hints concerning prehistoric Chinese intercourse with that part of the Khmere country. I should have been interested in seeing something of the work of the French arch^[[a[]eologists and ethnologists in the neighborhood. 

[[underlined]] PHOM PENH[[/underlined]] At Pnom Penh, the capital of the Protectorate of Cambodia, the French Re^[[accent mark on "e"]]sident Supe^[[accent mark on "e"]]rieur was most courteous. He had heard of my plan to visit Angkor and volunteered to wire ahead and make sure that we were to be met by bullock carts to take us to the government bungalow.
     Pnom Penh offered few objects of interest, but in the royal treasures of Cambodja I was particularly struck by the holy sword which is of splendidly chiseled steel. It is the only known example of this sort of workmanship, and is supposed by arch^[[a]]eologists to date from a period not later than the eighth century and to be a copy of an earlier one.
     M. George Groslier, an artist and arch^[[a]]eologist on a mission from the Ecole des Beaux Arts under the Ministry of Education, allowed me to see his photographs, drawings and notes from a group of Khmere ruins near the Siamese border, which have not yet been cleared from jungle.  It seems probable that his studies of implements, textiles, designs, musical instruments, etc. illustrated in Khmere art, will result in the identification