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curing process, the tea is packed in chests holding from 80 to 90 

 pounds net, and transported to Batavia, whence it is shipped to 

 Holland ; but some of it also goes to England, and, I believe, 

 occasionally a small lot to the United States. Java tea has a 

 handsome style of leaf, possesses good body, and is said to be an 

 excellent tea for making the mixtures which are commonly sold 

 in Holland and in England. 



The residence, together with all the accessories of the life led 

 by Mr. Kirkhoven, were to me very interesting, and I presume, 

 constitute a fair specimen of the life led by a majority of the large 

 planters in the interior of Java. These estates are generally very 

 extensive, usually comprising many thousands of acres, the most 

 eligible of which only are cultivated. The plantations of Messrs. 

 Kirkhoven and Hohler cover about three square miles of ground, 

 necessitating two establishments in different parts of this immense 

 territory, with all the requisites for cultivating and curing the tea. 



HALF WAY EOimC. 



TEOPICAl BCENEEY — THE MOST BEAtTTIFUL VIEW IN THE WORLD — 

 BRITISH COLONIZATION POLICY, ETC. 



I BELIEVE that all " globe trotters " give their friends at home 

 a dose of lessons in geography and reflections at this period of 

 their journey about their said friends being eight thousand miles 

 beneath their, feet, that noonday, with them is midnight with the 

 friends, etc. ; but it was never clear to my mind whether the 

 friends were on top or whether "the travellers were; so I have 

 concluded to spare the reader that part of my narrative, and 

 merely state that I am on my way from Singapore to Ceylon ; 

 that we have just passed the port of Penang, on the Malayan 

 Peninsula; are, therefore, a little more than half way round, and 

 that we are now ploughing through the Indian Ocean, oflE the 

 northerly end of Sumatra, as fast as steam and sails on the good 

 steamer Tigre, of the French " Messageries," can carry us. 



