CHAPTER VIII. 



Batatia — Governor-General* 8 Reception — Buitenzobg — Botanical 

 Gardens — Ethnological and Geological Museums — Java Fruit 

 — Visit to Raden Saleh, Native Artist — Batoe-Toulis, Site 

 of Old Town — Fetish Monument — Court of Justice. 



On reaching the roadstead of Batavia, we anchored 

 some two or three miles from the town, and a single 

 boat made its appearance to take passengers and 

 luggage ashore, where the vexatious process of examin- 

 ing the latter at the custom house proceeded with admir- 

 able punctiliousness, after which, and the inspection of 

 passports, I was allowed to proceed on my way by a small 

 open conveyance, the baggage being separately con- 



