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Menam

/ miːˈnæm /

noun

  1. another name for the Chao Phraya


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The upper half of the river Menam is occupied by what are called the Laú, or Laos.

Bangkok has all its business district afloat on the Menam River—shops, lumber yards, eating-houses and merchants' dwellings.

France had ships of war at the mouth of the Menam, and sent some of the smaller craft up the river.

The villages and the houses reminded them of those they had seen on the Menam in the vicinity of Bangkok.

On the eighteenth we came to anchor in four fathoms of water, about ten miles from the mouth of the river Menam.

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