Menam
Britishnoun
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Gloucester, Mass. Boowoo & Ubum Sirs: Before leaving there I fished the upper Menam, the regal preserve to which I had been granted piscary.
From Time Magazine Archive
The villages and the houses reminded them of those they had seen on the Menam in the vicinity of Bangkok.
From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by A. B. Shute
Bangkok, which, with its suburbs, has a population about equal to that of Boston, is built on the banks of the country's greatest river, the Menam, some forty miles from its mouth.
From Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell
The forts at the mouth of the Menam fired upon the gunboats, whereupon the French instituted a blockade of the Siamese capital and at the same time enormously increased their demands.
From Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell
The Menam River is the great thoroughfare of Bangkok, and the floating houses lined the river three or four deep for a considerable distance below the city.
From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by A. B. Shute
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