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เพื่อยืนยันว่าการแปลมีข้อผิดพลาดพอสมควร ขอยกตัวอย่างดังนี้ครับ
CHAPTER XV. TRADITIONS OF LUANG PRABANG. // We visited the hill where stands the pagoda called Pra Chawn Si,
said to contain Gautama's bones.>> ๑๕ ธรรมเนียมเมืองหลวงพระบาง เราไปเยี่ยมเจดีย์บนเนินเขา ชื่อ พระชอนศรี(Pra Chawn Si) ซึ่งถือว่าบรรจุอัฐิธาตุของพระพุทธเจ้า
>> ข้อเท็จจริงบนพูสี มีพระธาตุ จอมสี ไม่ใช่ ชอนศรี ... ซึ่งจะว่าไปเป็นหลักเมือง/หรือแกนเมือง ของหลวงพระบางก็ว่าได้
ข้างล่างนี้เป็นต้นฉบับภาษาอังกฤษของตอนที่ตัดมาเป็นกระทู้ มีการตัดทอนคำแปลไปพอสมควรจริงๆ เช่นตอนเจ้าหลวงหนีฮ่อลงเรือเขาบอกว่ามีองครักษ์ทหารพม่าคุ้มกัน (ซึ่งเป็นรายละเอียดที่น่าสนใจ) แต่ฉบับแปลเขียนว่าองครักษ์เฉยๆ อย่างไรก็ตามโดยรวมของคำแปลก็ชัดเจนว่า หลังจากฮ่อยึดหลวงพระบาง ฝรั่งเศสตีโต้ปราบฮ่อธงดำและยึดสิบสองจุไทได้โดยปริยาย ในการนั้นเชิญทัพไทยร่วมด้วยแต่สยามก็ไม่ได้เข้าไปร่วม ผมอ่านเหตุการณ์ปราบฮ่อปีสุดท้าย 2429-2430 ก็มีการรบอยู่นะครับแต่เป็นเมืองอื่น (ต้องตรวจสอบอีกครั้งว่าพิกัดใดและสำคัญทางยุทธศาสตร์แค่ไหน) ทัพฮ่อที่รบตอนสุดท้ายยอมแพ้ไทย แต่เราก็ไม่รู้ว่า ทัพฮ่อใหญ่ถูกปราบเสียราบแล้วโดยฝรั่งเศสใช่หรือไม่ // เหมือนกับว่า เราเอาชนะฮ่อที่พ่ายศึกมาอีกทอด ขณะที่ผู้กำชัยชนะที่สุดเพราะคือฝรั่งเศส เพราะได้ทำสัญญาให้ความคุ้มครองกับเจ้าหลวงพระบาง ได้ตั้งสถานกงสุลทั้งๆที่ตอนนั้นไม่มีคนในบังคับฝรั่งเศสเลย และนำมาสู่การได้ดินแดนเพิ่มในที่สุด //
CHAPTER XXI.
THE LAST HAW EXPEDITION AND SACK OF LUANG PRABANG.
SlAM was determined on another effort to do away with the Haw, whose
power was branching out in all sorts of places. With this intention
one expedition was organized under P'ia Surasak Montri, and sent
to operate in the country under the jurisdiction of Luang Prabang,
and another, under Prince Prachak, was sent to Nawng Kai. Never
in the history of Siam were such opportunities given for accomplish-
ing great things for the benefit of the country, and never was the
exercise of tact and ability so called for as on this occasion.
Prince Prachak, a brother of the king, had with him P'ia Siharaj
Dejo, who had been at Woolwich, and was attached to the English
artillery. He was a scion of the best family in Siam below royalty.
P'ia Surasak, a cousin, was also fortunate in possessing the close
friendship and confidence of the king. If these expeditions failed in
the slightest details, it was to the leaders, and no one else, that blame
could be attached.
In the previous year P'ia Eaj had been obliged to raise the siege
of Tung Chieng Kam after three months, and to fall back on
Nawng Kai.
Prince Prachak went to Nawng Kai, and his active lieutenant
pushed on to Tung Chieng Kam, but he- was disappointed to find
that the birds had flown. He, however, burnt the stockade, and
placed it beyond all possibility of being again used.
Fia Surasak fixed his headquarters at Muang Sawn, where he
remained during the rainy season, and went through a considerable
amount of hardship. Later on the French were again on the move.
The place of Dr. Neiss was filled by M. Pa vie, a man about thirty-
five years of age, who had formerly been in the service of the Govern-
ment of Siam. It was he who had constructed the line of telegraph
from Bangkok to Fratabawng. He had made many journeys in the
regions between Siam and Cambodia, and had constructed the tele-
graph line through Anam to Tonkin.
England had made a treaty with Siam, and appointed a vice-
consulate at Chieng Mai. France made a similar treaty with respect
to Luang Prabang, though in the whole province there was not a
single resident French subject, Tonkinese, Anamite, or Cambodian.
M. Pavie was now proceeding to take up the duties of the first vice-
consul.
As I was to go north and join P'ia Surasak's column, it was
thought that I might with advantage accompany M. Pavie, and the
courteous French representative. Count de Kergaradie, arranged that
I should do so. I had elected to go by way of Chieng Mai, to avoid
interfering with the transport arrangements for the army at Luang
Prabang, and this route also suited M. Pavie. But in order not to
be involved in any complications that might arise in the future, I had
the nature of our connection thoroughly explained. He and I, it was
agreed, would travel together as far as his boat, and mine could be
towed by the same launch, and our companionship should cease
when we reached a point beyond which the launch could not go.
Above Paknam Po the launch towing us stuck on a sandbank,
and, being swung by the stream, nearly capsized my six-chao boat,
which was lashed close to it. The launch having grounded, we could
be towed no further, and I bade adieu to M. Pavie, each, according to
agreement, now going his own way.
M. Pavie was always courteous, and had done all he could to
make the journey pleasant ; but continued association with him could
have led to no good in any direction, and, considering subsequent
events, I am thankful that we separated.
I was accompanied by Collins and Louis du Plessis de Eichelieu,
and we hurried on to Chieng Mai, thence to Chieng Eai, by boat to
Luang Prabang, and thence to Muang Teng, which place we reached
on December 16.
P'ia Surasak had arrived a few days before, and had placed the
sons of Chao Lai, who had been sent down to receive him, in close
confinement. I felt sure there would be trouble, and wished to
remain with P'ia Surasak, but he objected to my presence. I then
proposed to go to Lai, but he wondered what I could find to do there.
Had he consented, I would have asked for the release of the sons of
had originally lived on the right bank of the Nam Te ; Ijutj influenced
by the Chinese and superstitious notions derived from the custom of
pigs which, when about to litter, awam across the river, he had trans-
ferred his home to the right bank.
P'ia Surasak was infatuated with the idea that the Chao.would come
to Teng on account of his sons, and at the same time he was making
overtures to the famous Black Flag leader called Ong Ba. The
feelings of this man towards him seemed very much like those of the
fly towards the spider, for he usually put off his coming with some
excuse, alleging at one time that he was keeping his grandmother's
birthday, at another, that he was detained by worshipping the spirit
of his other grandmother.
My idea had been that I should go to Muang Lai and survey along
the boundary of Siam, but my instructions were to place myself under
the orders of P'ia Surasak. His directions were that I should go to
Sep Et, meet a section of his army there, then follow the boundary
of Hua Pan Tang Ha Tang Hok, and eventually go to Nawng Kai.
De Eichelieu, who had been taken ill, left by boat for Luang Prabang
and Nawng Kai, but Collins accompanied me. On my way to Teng,
and at Teng, I was subject to severe attacks of colic ; but at Muang
Ya the attack was so prolonged that I was quite exhausted, and fever
came on. Night was made hideous by the howls of men of the
village exorcising the evil spirits from some victims of fever. I
fell ill on December 23, and it was not till January 10 that I was
able to move off again. I then went to Luang Prabang, and thence
to Bangkok.
M. Pavie had in due time reached Luang Prabang, and then
moved up the Nam U ; but when he had advanced as far as the mouth
of the Nam Nua, he met the Lao of Muang Teng in full flight from
the Haw, these marauders having been brought down by the eldest son
of Chao Lai, who intended with their help to avenge the arrest of his
brothers. M. Pavie returned to Luang Prabang, which P'ia Surasak,
who was now at Paklai, had denuded of such means of defence as it
had possessed. The Haw continued their advance down the Nam U
and reached M. Ngoi. There a narrow river-gorge, over a mile
long, is commanded by a hill, whose limestone cliffs rise perpen-
dicularly from the water. In the gorge the river is very deep, but the
current is imperceptible, and boats descending can make no pro-
gress against a head wind. No hostile band anticipating opposition
would attempt to force a passage, but the Haw evidently knew the
men they were dealing with. They ascended the hill, and, seizing
the excellent mountain howitzers, which had been provided for the
defence of the position, rolled them over the cliffs into the river.
THE SACK OF LUANG PRABANQ. 109
They then pushed on to Luang Prabang, and took up their quarters
at Wat Chieng Tawng. Before their arrival M. Pavie and the
Siamese commissioner had left. The Chao Uparaj had also left, but
was recalled by the chief, who was determined to die in Luang
Prabang. One of the chiefs sons enrolled some twenty Burmans as
a special bodyguard for his father.
The Haw now acted in accordance with their usual barbarity.
Beginning at the Wat, where they had chosen their quarters, they
VIEW OF LUANG PllABANQ FROM HILL ON RIGHT UANK OF THE ME KAWXG.'i
extended their murderous work throughout the town. The Chao
Uparaj was put to death, and the old chief was compelled by his sons
and Burman guard to go on board a boat, where one of his sons was
shot before his eyes. Luang Prabang was fired and looted ; but the
historic golden statue of Buddha, called "Pra Bang," had been
already secured by a wily old Lao, who had carried it off and buried
it. The old chief met M. Pavie lower down the river, and together
they went to Paklai, the chief going on to Bangkok.
During the next dry season the French made a final effort to
subdue the outlying province of Tonkin, and invited the Siamese to
co-operate with them. The Siamese army, under P*ia Surasak,
however, had not left the valley of the Me Nam when the French
attacked the Black Flags at Laokai, marched to Muang Lai, and then
established themselves at Muang Teng, where, meeting with no oppo-
sition, they quietly assumed jurisdiction over the Sibsawng Chu Tai.
Meanwhile M. Pavie, who had been provided with a Siamese escort,
to whose plucky behaviour on one occasion, when surrounded by the
Haw, he owed his life, had been travelling all through the Sibsawng
Chu Tai, and ultimately joined the French troops.
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