The book has two volumes : the first one talking about the frontier between Cambodia and Vietnam and between Cambodia and Laos; the second one talking about the frontier between Cambodia and Thaïland with a fundamentally different aspect of the problems. We try to start with the first volume.

Nine animals underwent transmuscular surgical injury bilaterally to the vocal folds by removing a biopsy at the midmembraneous point from the epithelium down to the thyroarytenoid muscle using 2mm cup microforceps.

The bees always alighten at the bottom of the spike, and, crawling spirally up it, sucked one flower after the other.

[…] one Roscius Gallus the most excellent player among the Romaines brought up these vizards, which we see at this day used, partly to supply the want of players, when there were moe parts than there were persons, or that it was not thought meet to trouble and pester princes chambers with too many folkes. Now by the chaunge of a vizard one man might play the king and the carter, the old nurse and the yong damsell, the marchant and the souldier or any other part he listed very conveniently.