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collection. In the zoological garden there were some 

 handsome birds : the kroonvogel of the size of a large 

 fowl, of delicate slate colour, with brownish wings, a very 

 full feathery tuft on his head, and a bright red eye ; the 

 splendid bird of Paradise from the Moluccas ; the gold 

 and silver pheasant, and the black cockatoo belonging 

 to this island ; the blue Australian pheasant, and the 

 large blue emu. An exceedingly pretty animal, 

 belonging to Java and the Malay islands, is the dwarf 

 or musk deer {kanchill, the Dutch call it), no more 

 than eight to ten inches high and fifteen inches long, 

 the most perfect and well-proportioned little animal 

 imaginable, very active and easily tamed. 



Foreseeing that I might possibly miss seeing Buiten- 

 zorg, the sanatorium of the Batavians, if I delayed the 

 trip until my return, I arranged to go there at once, 

 and secured a seat in the coach that was to start on 

 the following morning. It was a cumbersome machine, 

 which had probably some fifty or a hundred years ago 

 plied between Amsterdam and Rotterdam, — four, and 

 at times six, ponies were put under requisition to pull 

 us along, which they did at a fair pace, a couple of 

 boys running alongside encouraging the poor animals 

 by whip and tongue. We passed through the pretty 

 faubourg of Cramat, with its elegant villas, and past 



