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for Malay children. — Judicial procedure. — Visit to the penal settlement for 

 coloured criminals. — A Chinese provision-merchant at business and at home. 

 — Fatal accident on board. — Departure from Singapore. — Difficulty in pass- 

 ing through Gaspar Straits. — Sporadic outbreak of cholera on board. — Death 

 of one of the ship's boys. — First burial at sea. — Sea-snakes. — Arrival in the 

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CHAPTER XII. 



JAVA. 



Old and New Batavia. — Splendid reception. — Scientific societies. — Public insti- 

 tutions. — Natives. — A Malay embassy. — Excursion into the interior. — 

 Buitenzorg. — The Botanic Garden. — The Negro.— Prince Aquasie Boaehi. — 

 Pondok Gedeh. — The infirmary at Gadok, and Dr. Bernstein. — Megamen- 

 doeng. — Javanese villages. — Tjipannas. — Ascent of Pangerango. — Forest 

 scenery. — Javanese resting-houses or Pasanggrahans. — Night and morning 

 on the summit of the volcano. — Visit to Gunung Gedeh. — The plantations of 

 Peruvian bark -trees in Tjipodas. — Their actual condition. — Conjectures as to 

 the future. — Voyage to Bandong. — Spots vrhere edible swallovrs' nests are 

 found. — Hospitable reception by a Javanese prince. — Visit to Dr. Junghuhn 

 in Lembang. — Coffee cultivation. — Decay in value of the coffee bean of Java. 

 — Professor Vriese and the coffee planters of Java.— Free trade and mo- 

 nopoly. — Compulsory and free labour. — Ascent of the volcano of Tangkuban- 

 Prahu. — Poison Crater and King's Crater. — A geological excursion to a por- 

 tion of the Preanger Regency. — Native fete given by the Javanese Regent 

 of Tjiaujocr. — A day at the Governor-general's country-seat at Buitenzorg. 

 — Return to Batavia.— Ball given by the military club in honour of the No- 

 vara. — Raden Saleh, a Javanese artist. — Barracks and prisons. — Meester 

 Coruelis. — French opera. — Constant changes among the European society. 

 — Aims of the colonial government. — Departure from Batavia. — Pleasant 

 voyage. — An English ship with Chinese Coolies.— Bay of Manila. — Arrival in 

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CHAPTER XIII. 



MANILA. 



Historical notes relating to the Philippines. — From Cavite to Manila. — The river 

 Pasig. — First impressions of the city. — Its inhabitants. — Tagales and Ne- 

 gritoes. — Preponderating influence of monks. — Visit to the four chief monas- 

 teries. — Conversation with an Augustine Monk. — Grammars and Dictionaries 

 of the idioms chiefly in use in Manila. — Reception by the Governor-general of 



