CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE STRAIT OF SCNDA AND DATAVIA. 



Object of the Travels described in this volume — Xearing the coast of Java — 

 Balmy breezes of the Eastern Isles — King jEolus's favorite seat — A veil of 

 rain — First v-iew of Malays — Entering the Java Sea — The Malay language — 

 Early history of Java — Marco Polo — Hinduism in Java — History of Bata- 

 via — The roadstead of Batavia — The city of Batavia — Houses of Europeans 

 — Mode of cooking — Characteristics of the Malays — Collecting butterflies — 

 Visit Rahden Saleh — Attacked with a fever — receive a letter from the Gov- 

 ernor-General 13-41 



CHAPTER n. 



SAMARANG AND SURABAYA. 



Sail from Batavia for the Moluccas — My companions — Mount Slamat — The 

 north coast of Java — Mount Prahu — Temples at Boro Bodo and Bramba- 

 nan — Samarang — Mohammedan mosque — History of Mohammedanism — 

 Mount Japara — The Guevo Upas, or Valley of Poison — Grcsik — Novel 

 mode of navigating mud-flats — Surabaya — Government dock-yard and ma- 

 chine-shops — Zoological gardens — History of Hinduism — The Klings — Ex- 

 cursion to a sugar plantation — Roads and telegraphic routes in Java — 

 Malay mode of gathering rice — The kinds of sugar-cane . . 42-70 



CHAPTER III. 



THE FI.ORA AND FAUNA OF THE TROPICAL EAST. 



Leave Surabaya for Macassar — Madura — The Sapi — Manufacture of salt — The 

 Tenger Mountains — The Sandy Sea — Eruptions of Mount Papandaynng and 

 Mount Galunggong — Java and Cuba compared — The forests of Java — Fauna 

 of Java — The cocoa-nut palm — The Pandanus — The banana — Tropical fruit? 

 — The n;aii''0stin — The r.imbutan — manjro — duku — durian — bread - fi uit- 



