Nature's Wonderland. 9 



If in imagination a traveler ascend onc 

 of the higher peaks of Java and look 

 arotmd hiin. thcrc would hc laid out before 

 his dclighted vision such a panorama as 

 woukl be hard to parallel. ln thc far west 

 are the dim outlines of the Island of Su- 

 matra, an island as large as France, with 

 a population of about four million people. 

 Java itself lies all about him, with a popu- 

 lation of over fifty million. In thc east and 

 uorth thcrc is the bulk of Rorneo, a conti- 

 nental island more than eight times the size 

 of Pennsylvania, while farlher cast are the 

 bcautiful islands of the Celebes, the wild 

 lands of New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, 

 etc. 



Coming back to the near view around 

 the observer, there lics the Island of Java. 

 Below the site on which he stands, on the 

 lower shouldcrs of the mountains, are the 

 great trecs of the Malaysian forests. A 

 Httlc lower, where the widc clearings bcgin, 

 are the corTee gardens, which in thcir sea- 

 son are covered witb a sheet of white bloom 

 as beautiiul as it is fragram. A litlle lower 

 are the fruit orchards in which all manner 

 of tropical fruits abouud. With many of 



