CHAPTER X. 



BALI AND LOMBOCK. 



(JUNE, JULY, 1856.) 



rriHE islands of Bali and Lombock, situated at the east 

 end of Java, are particularly interesting. They are the 

 only islands of the whole Archipelago in which the Hindoo 

 religion still maintains itself — and they form the extreme 

 points of the two great zoological divisions of the Eastern 

 hemisphere ; for although so similar in external appear- 

 ance and in all physical features, they differ greatly in their 

 natural productions. It was after having spent two years 

 in Borneo, Malacca and Singapore, that 1 made a some- 

 what involuntary visit to these islands on my way to 

 Macassar. Had I been able to obtain a passage direct to 

 that place from Singapore, I should probably never have 

 gone near them, and should have missed some of the 

 most important discoveries of my whole expedition to 

 the East. 



It was on the loth of June, 1856, after a twenty days' 

 passage from Singapore in the " Kembang Djepoon" (Bose 



