270 JAVA CULTIVATION. 



cultivate whichever pixxhice promises the most profit- 

 able result. Another proof of satisfactory planting by 

 free labour is that, in the province of Preang-er, in 

 which many of the settlers fi'om the time of the British 

 occupation hold land and work it in their own way, 

 most splendid results have likewise been obtained, the 

 yield of coffee having inci'eased there eight-fold between 

 1830 and 1857. 



