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recruited by fresh arrivals from Europe. How out of place, 

 accordingly, docs social or intellectual life appear in such 

 countries, as compared with the colonies settled in temperate 

 climates, in North America, at the Cape, in Australia, in 

 New Zealand, in all of which the immigrant population is of 

 a fixed character, building up for themselves a second home, 

 and clinging with love and gratitude to the soil that gives 

 them sustenance, and on which their sons will grow up, under 

 the invigorating influences of free institutions, into free, 

 prosperous, self-relying men ! 



Even in Batavia the majority of the European residents 

 change every eight or ten years ; instances such as that of 

 Colonel von Schierbrand, of men who during 30 years have 

 never once left the island, never yet seen a railroad, being of 

 rare occurrence. 



Of the numerous friends whom we were so" fortunate as 

 to make during our stay in Java, and to whom such heart- 

 felt thanks are due for their hospitality and the warm interest 

 they took in the objects of our Expedition,* many have 

 since left the island for ever, and by their return to Europe 

 left many a lamentable vacancy. t The more deserving 



* Of these we cannot refrain from mentioning Dr. Van den Broek, who shortly 

 before our arrival had returned from Japan, where he had resided seven years as 

 physician and Government agent. Dr. Van den Broek, who is at present engaged 

 in the editing a dictionary of the Dutch and Japanese languages, presented us with 

 a botanical work in Japanese with numerous wood-cuts, and at the same time was 

 so exceedingly kind as to present us with a small vocabulary of the Court and the 

 popular dialects used in Japan. 



t Among scientific circles in Batavia the recent departure of the renowned 

 ichthyologist. Dr. Bleeker, who intends to settle in Holland or Germany, will be the 



