Stay pbom 5th to 29th Mat, 1858. 



Old and New Batavia. — Splendid reception. — Scientific societies. 

 — Public institutions. — Natives. — -A Malay embassy. — Excur- 

 sion into the interior. — Buitenzorg. — The Botanic Garden. — The 

 Negro. — Prince Aquasie Boachi. — Pondok Gedeh. — The in- 

 firmary at Gadok, and Dr. Bernstein. — Megamendoeng. — Java- 

 nese villages. — Tjipannas. — ^Ascent of Pangerango. — Forest 

 scenery. — Javanese resting-hoiises or Pasanggrahans. — Night 

 and morning on the summit of the volcano. — Visit to Gunung 

 Gedeh. — The plantations of Peruvian b;u*k-trees in Tjipodas. — • 

 Their actual condition. — Conjectures as to the future. — Voyage 

 to Bandong. — Spots where edible swallows'-nests are found. — Hospitable reception 

 by a Javanese prince.— Visit to Dr. Junghuhn in Lembang. — Coffee cultivation. — 

 Decay in value of the coflfee bean of Java. — Professor Vriese and the coffee planters 

 of Java. — Free trade and monopoly. — Compulsory and free labour. — Ascent of the 

 volcano of Tangkuban-Prahu. — Poison Crater and King's Crater. — A geological ex- 

 cursion to a portion of the Preanger Regency. — Native fete given by the Javanese 

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

 — Return to Batavia. — Ball given by the military club in honour of the Novara. — 

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

 opera. — Constant changes among the Eiu-opean society. — Aims of the colonial go- 

 vernment. — Departure from Batavia. — Pleasant voyage. — An English ship with 

 Chinese Coolies. — Bay of Manila. — Arrival in Cavite harbour. 



In order to get from the roadstead of Batavia to the ^' Stad 

 Herberg," the sole landing-place for boats, distant some miles 



