266 Vofjai/e of the Novara. 



secured through his administrative caj^acity, and restless 

 activity, tlie confidence and sympathies of the Government, 

 was somewhat later appointed Colonial Minister in Holland, 

 and finally, in 1856, Governor-general of the Dutch East 

 Indies. The introduction of the quinquina plant from Peru 

 and its present extension tlu'oughout Java, are his chief 

 claims to recognition. 



As M. Van Pahud is a widower, the honours of his mansion 

 were performed by his daughter, a lady in delicate health, 

 who a few years previously had the distressing trial of be- 

 holding her husband, who filled one of the most important 

 posts as Resident at a Regency in the interior, cut down be- 

 fore her eyes by a Malay ! 



We spent a couple of days in this charming retreat of 

 Buitenzorg, whose botanical garden ever unfolded fresh 

 beauties, and had the pleasure on this, as on the occasion of 

 our first visit, to make several most agreeable acquaintances. 

 A deep interest attaches to our visit to Madame Hartmanu, 

 the widow of a former Resident in Borneo, who possesses a 

 small but every way remarkable collection of ethnographic 

 objects illustrative of that island, and who not alone had 

 the thoughtful courtesy to show us all these treasures of 

 natural history, but even presented us with a considerable 

 portion of them. The writer of this account felt himself in 

 an especial degree under obligation to this excellent lady 

 for a number of skeletons of the various races of men inhabit- 

 ing that island, which it would have been exceedingly 



