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the door and so he spoke to us among the first as he 
came in; he stopped and asked if our trip had been a 
success, ete. When supper was announced we re- 
mained in the ball room and had supper with his 
daughters while all the rest went to the supper +. 
The next day his daughters called at the museum to 
see our collections and photographs. They were very 
pleasant and said they wished they could have gone 
with us. The palace is very old and very fine — of 
white marble and quite open and wonderfully cool. 
There is a complete series of paintings of all the 
governors-general since the first ; the old ones are very 
fine old paintings, I can tell you. The Naval Aid, a 
very pleasant young Captain, has asked us to lunch 
when we get back. 
From Djokjakarta we go to Garoet to climb the 
voleano Papandiang; this is one of the most interest- 
ing of the volcanoes on acount of its mud springs, ete., 
and also because you can go on horseback nearly to the 
top. On most of the others the roads get too steep 
right in the steamy forest belt. From Garoet we 
shall go by train to Tjandjoer and then a couple of 
hours by eart to Sindanglaja, near which place is the 
mountain branch of the Botanical Gardens. From 
there we expect to ride to a wonderful waterfall of 
the river Tjibureum on the Kandang Bodak moun- 
tain (the rhinoceros pasture, in English). The Moun- 
tain Gardens at Tjibadas are wonderful and have a 
particularly fine wild wood of virgin forest; there are 
tree ferns from thirty to forty feet high. From there 
we can post it to B’zong in six hours. We shall re- 
main here a few days to pick up our belongings and 
then proceed to Batavia, from which place I shall send 
