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Java, but whether from want of care or skill in the 

 business, or from the inferiority of the plant, they 

 by no means equal, or even approach, the produc- 

 tions of Manilla. The Spaniards, indeed, both in 

 the eastern and western hemispheres, are the only 

 nation who have succeeded in making first-rate 

 cigars. As we walked about the town we found 

 ourselves attended by one or two well-dressed Java- 

 nese servants, leading a handsome piebald pony, 

 and discovered at length they were sent by the 

 Regent to wait on us. We saw also in one or two 

 parts of the town much handsomer and finer- looking 

 horses than we had hitherto met with, and under- 

 stood they came from Bima, in Sumbawa. 



On our return to the hotel, we found from our 

 sick friend, Hill, that M. Dickelman, the Assistant- 

 resident, had been to call on us, and just as we had 

 finished dinner he came again. 



He was remarkably civil and attentive, and 

 seemed an active, intelligent man. He had resided 

 twenty-eight years in Java, eleven of which he 

 had spent at Malang, but had no marks in his 

 appearance of so long a residence in the tropics, 

 and told us he had never been ill, except at 

 Batavia and another place on the coast. He 

 informed us that the town and district of Malang 

 contained 80,000 inhabitants, and that it produced 

 and sent down to Passarouan 80,000 # picul of 



* About 4,872 tons. This quantity seems so enormous that I 

 fear I must have made some mistake. 



