CHAPTER XII. 



SIJMATEA. 



On the third day from Macassar we arrived 

 safely at Surabaya, and thence proceeded westward to 

 Samarang, and, on the first of February, 1806, I was 

 again in Batavia, having been absent in the eastern 

 part of the archipelago eight months. Through the 

 courtesy of Messrs. Diimmler & Co., of that city, who 

 obligingly offered to receive and store my collections 

 and forward them to America, I was left entirely 

 free to commence a new journey. 



The generous offer of the governor-general to give 

 me an order for post-horses free over all parts of Java 

 was duly considered ; but as many naturalists and 

 travellers have described it already, I determined to 

 proceed to Sumatra, and, if possible, travel in the 

 interior of that unexplored island, and, accordingly, 

 on the 12th of February, I took passage for Padang 

 on the Menado, the same steamer in which I had 

 already travelled so many hundred miles. 



From Batavia we soon steamed away to the Strait 

 of Sunda, and once more it was my privilege to be- 

 hold the lofty peaks in the southern end of Suma- 

 tra. From that point as far north as Cape Indrapura 



