Talk:George Finlayson

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Enigmatic Mrs. Crawfurd

George Finlayson's journal has the only known reference to Mrs. John Crawfurd: "Mrs. Crawfurd had accompanied us to the village, and her presence conferred a degree of interest upon the scene not easy to be described. The men, stupid with wonder, seemed to look upon her as a being of another creation and indeed, if we cast our eyes upon the con-trast in the female forms now before us, their wonder will not appear surprising, and these rude and wretched savages might well doubt that they had but little connexion with our race. Never, per-haps, was savage life more strikingly contrasted with refined ; an accomplished female, brought up in all the elegance and refinement of the first metropolis in the world, stood opposed to the rude, scarce human forms of the savage islanders of the Gulf of Siam !"

MISSION TO SIAM AND COCHIN CHINA. pp.269-70 —Pawyilee (talk) 12:50, 18 May 2015 (UTC)