CHAPTER VII. 



JAVA. 



T .SPENT three mouths and a half in Java, from July 

 18th to October 31st, 1861, and shall briefly describe 

 my own movements, and my observations on the people 

 aud the natural history of the country. To all those who 

 wish to understand how the Dutch now govern Java, and 

 how it is that they are enabled to derive a large annual 

 revenue from it, while the population increases, and the 

 inhabitants are contented, I recommend the study of 

 Mr. Money's excellent and interesting work, " How to 

 Manage a Colonv," The main facts and conclusions of that 

 work I most heartily concur in, and I believe that the 

 Dutch system is the very best that can be adopted, when 

 a European nation conquers or otherwise acquires posses- 

 sion of a country inhabited by an industrious but semi- 

 barburous people. In my account of Northern Celebes, I 

 shall show how successfully the same system has been 

 applied to a people in a very different state of civilization 



