James Low was an officer of the English East India Company's Madras Army, stationed at Penang. Low's mission to Southern Siam in 1824 was supposed to enlist Siamese support for the British invasion of Burma. His mission was a failure, but the report he produced, published here in full for the first time, provides a fascinating picture of the Andaman Sea coast of Thailand, from Phuket to the Malaysian border, now a great tourist region.