PHUKET HISTORY
Promthep Cape Phuket PHUKET was frist discovered from the west by Arab and indian navigators between AD880-916.These seafaring Explorers found the native inhabitants to be wanderers and believed the migratory race tobe a cross between the An damanese and Nicobar, or "strails islanders" far away to the NW and W These people were naturally excellent swimmers, drives, and mariners, Who are recognized today as the " Chao ley ", Or sea gypsies . Even among Marco Polo's circle of adventurers. Phuket was said to exist; but it wasn't until AD 1200 that the first written record of Phuket appeared in the English Sailing Journals of the Indian Archipelago. Three centuries later, the first stream of European sea traders came to the island and found a seaport trading in rhinoceros horn, ivor, geme, and, pearls for the past century, Phuket'S history has been documented In 1906, a missionary named John Carrington kept a journal for the Siam Society of his Southern