EXCURSION TO THE EASTERN PART OF THE ISLAND. 



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I often got shots at all the above from the high road by 

 stopping the carriage and jumping out. 



After remaining a short time in Batavia and its neigh- 

 bourhood, and being very anxious to see as much as I could, 

 the Governor General offered me a passage to Soerabaya on 





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WA R T HOG OF J A VA (Sus verrucosus). 



the eastern coast of the island, near which town a friend of 

 mine had a sugar mill. With him I remained some time 

 making most interesting excursions to the Tengger mountains 

 and to the volcanoes of the Bromo and the Smeroe. I was 

 fortunate to be accompanied by a very pleasant travelling 



