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tail, of excellent breed, and more like a thorough- 

 bred Pegu, but nearly fourteen hands high ; these 

 came from Timor. 



Two hours more took me to Samarang, along a plea- 

 sant road, up and down hill. This time the "Pavilion" 

 accommodated me, a great improvement upon the 

 hotel I stayed at before, and a few days later the 

 " Koningin Sophia " took me on to Batavia, Here I 

 stayed but two days, the i-ain pouring down incessantly 

 in such torrents that I had to keep within doors, or at 

 least under the verandah of the hotel, which gave me 

 ample time to cogitate upon what I had seen ; for it 

 must always be an interesting episode that a nation 

 like the Dutch, with a population of barely 4,000,000 

 souls, should be able, with comparatively insignifi- 

 cant forces, to maintain beyond the Equator in most 

 absolute dependency a large empire containing up- 

 wards of 14,000,000 inhabitants. I will here 

 briefly relate the policy hitherto pursued by the 

 Government in ruling^ the finest colonv in the 

 world. 



Java is divided into twenty- two provinces, two of 

 which. Solo and Djokjo are, as we have seen, under the 

 nominal rule of Emperor and Sultan; in these the 

 old feudal rights of twenty years holding, rent being 



