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that we had to get out of the carriage for a short space under 

 a deluge of rain, so as to admit of its being more readily put 

 into running order again. Despite the inclemency of the 

 weather we were on this occasion accompanied on horseback 

 by the magistrates of the villages through which we passed, 

 and although man}^ of these were shivering and chattering 

 with the wet and cold, they were nevertheless inexorable in 

 assisting to send us forward, and though not required to do 

 so, accompanied us to our next station, where their place was 

 supi^lied by others not less attentive. , 



AVliile still on the road, the commodore and several mem- 

 bers of the Expedition received an invitation from the Go- 

 vernor-general to stop at his summer residence of Buitenzorg, 

 and to make it for some 'days their resting-place. It was 

 unfortunate, that this display of hospitality was somewhat 

 weakened in cordiality by a too rigid observance of those 

 minor matters of etiquette, which his Excellency seemed to 

 think he could not afford to dispense with even in his quiet, 

 miostentatious country-seat. The stringent observance of 

 such unbending measured ceremony is tlie more remarkable, 

 in the case of a man who has raised himself from an obscure 

 grade of citizenship to this lofty post, and who does not even 

 indulge in that lavish expense or profuse luxury, which 

 would at least be in harmony with the ceremonial usages 

 with wliich he surrounds himself. M. Van Pahud came to 

 Batavia about twenty years before, as a school-master, and 

 ere long, having become an employd in the civil service, 



