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Le Bassin Du Mekong
| The Mekong at Kampon Lamasery, Tibet border area, 1930. | |||
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| Suspension bridge over the Gang Guo gorge, north of Baoshan, Yunnan, 1937. "It is made of a couple of rotten boards laid on long iron chains anchored in masonry blocks; the Mekong was forcing its way underneath, like an enormous fluid mass flowing rapidly in violent and reddish whirls." A. Guibaut, Mission perdues au Tibet, p. 124. | |||
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| A street in Luang Prabang, the capital city of the Kingdom bearing the same name, 3 years after the city had been ransacked by Deo Va Tri, Laos, Pavie Mission, 1890. | |||
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| Making a halt in the evening in Paklay, Laos. R. Tetart Mission, 1919. | |||
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| Mail delivery on the Mekong by the dugouts of the P & T Service taking post to the villages bordering the River in Northern Laos, R. Tetart Mission, 1919. | |||
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| Mail to be delivered in Paklay and Luang Prabang is being loaded in Vientiane on a Post Service hydroplane , Laos, 1930. | |||
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| The riverbanks of the Mekong in Vientiane, then chef-lieu (district capital) of French Laos from 1895 to 1949, Laos, 1901. | |||
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| The steam-powered launch of the company "Le Trentinian," offering freight and passenger services on the Vientiane-Savannakhet section, Laos, 1897. | |||
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| Thai launch ensuring police service on the Siamese side of the river between Mukdahan and Nong Khai, Siam, 1902. | |||
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| October 1893 view of the rear part of the launch "Ham Luong" on the transporter platform in Khone South, Laos, album of the G. Simon Mission, 1897. Facing the problem of crossing the Khone mountain range separating the Lower from the Middle Mekong, France initiated in 1893 the construction of a 160-meter long bridge and the laying of a 7-kilometer long railway track; it was then possible to transfer the launches between the two sections of the river, which improved transportation between the Cambodian and the Lao parts of the watercourse. | |||
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| October 1893 view of the launches "Ham Luong" and "Massie" on the transporter platforms in Khone North, Laos, album of the G. Simon Mission, 1897 | |||
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