IN THE EAST INDIES. 119 
Ampenan, Lombok, January 26, 1907 
Dear Family : 
The trip has now begun; this is the best oppor- 
tunity I ever expected to have to see things which to 
my mind are worth seeing, viz : things which really 
few have seen before. First, our ship, the ‘‘Both,”’ 
1700 tons, is as clean and neat as any little Dutch ship 
ever was, with very pleasant officers, and there are two 
Englishmen with us, as well as a young government 
naturalist from Buitenzorg, Dr. Van Kampen, who 
goes to Amboyna. 
We shall be the only passengers after Ternate 
and shall have things all to ourselves, we five. We 
went to Soerabaya by train to take the boat, not a 
pleasant or cool place; we are glad to be well away 
from it. One night’s sail brought us to Bali, a splendid 
island with gigantic heavily wooded voleanoes rising 
straight up, but all quiet; we saw active ones in Java. 
On this island the animals of the continental lands 
stop ; here are tigers, wild cattle, Asiatic birds, ete. We 
had a very interesting drive to some splendid relies of 
the ancient Hindu invasion of Bali about 200, A. D. 
wonderful temples at a place called Sangsit and a few 
of the Hindus are still hanging about, not yet cleaned 
out by the present wave of Mohammedanism. We made 
a good collection of insects, ete., here; then the ship 
sailed away; the same night about ten we reached 
Ampenan Lombok; early this forenoon we went 
ashore. This place is as interesting as was Buleleng, 
Bali, for here the Australian fauna begin and you see 
white cockatoos, ete., and there are no large animals 
at all. We obtained collections of fresh water fishes, 
insects, shells, ete., a very good lot. Just the minute 
