4 SYSTEM OF SUGAR FACTORY. 



and carries off the molasses and other impurities 

 through holes in the bottom. The sugar is then 

 spread out in the sun to dry, after which it is packed 

 in baskets for shipment. Some of the clayed 

 sugar which Mr. Vandenbruck shewed us, was as 

 white as snow in the upper part of the pot, but 

 it gradually got darker towards the lower ex- 

 tremity. 



The production of sugar, to any extent, is of 

 recent origin in Java, and may be said to be the act 

 of the Dutch Government. 



Private property in land is a thing unknown in 

 Java, except in the case of some estates acquired 

 during the English occupancy, between the years 

 1811 and 1816. In the year 1832, Governor Van 

 den Bosch, in order to encourage sugar-growing, 

 adopted the following system. The Government 

 entered into a contract with any individual, whether 

 Dutchman or foreigner, who was willing to become 

 a sugar manufacturer, and agreed to advance him 

 money to erect his mill and other buildings, and 

 lease him a site for the same, and to cause the 

 surrounding fields to be planted with sugar-cane 

 by the natives, on condition that all the sugar 

 produced was sold to Government at certain rates. 

 The money advanced was to be repaid by instal- 

 ments, and at the end of the contract the buildings 

 were to be taken by Government at a valuation. 

 The settler thus had no need of capital, but merely 

 of a certain amount of intelligence, industry, and 



