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rhinoceros horn are rather a curiosity, and they 

 are much more practical than ordinary silver 

 spoons. 



Aftei- my return to tlie hotel, T donned my black 

 coat and hat to meet the fashionable world taking a 

 drive along those splendid avenues, — the Kyswyk, with 

 the Governor-General's palace, and the Harmonie, a 

 large club, the Waterloo-plein and the Konings-plein. 

 Often a band plays here for an hour, but the whole 

 thing is very tame, — after a few turns you may call on 

 your friends unless you are sufficiently intimate to do 

 so in the morning, en mi-toilette. The dinner hour is 

 usually seven o'clock, and the evening is whiled away 

 with conversation, a cigar, and a newspaper. 



The beauty of Java's tropical vegetation is proverbial, 

 and Batavia makes no exception. There are magni- 

 ficent bits of scenery at Parapattan, Greenoeng, and 

 Tiebault, river and canal banks displaying the charms 

 of the graceful bamboo and the stately palm, — every- 

 thing is smiling ; but the climate, although much has 

 been done to improve it by way of drainage, is fatal to 

 all who exceed the strictest rule of diet and sobriety, 

 or who visit the marshy coast in search of sport. 

 Cholera and malaria are the ofreat enemies of the 

 northern coast of the island ; whilst inland, at the 

 elevation of a few thousand feet the climate, during 



