GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES IN MALAYSIA AND ASIA. 



By the Rev. J. K Tenison- Woods, F.G.S., F.L.S., «fce. 

 Hon. Mem.. Roy. Asiat. Soc, (Straits Branch). 



The following paper is founded on some of the brief notes made 

 on the geography and physical geography of the various countries 

 visited by me during the years 1 883-8 4-85-86. It will include 

 some account of what was of principal interest to me in the 

 MalayiQ Peninsula and Indian Archipelago, southern and eastern 

 Asia, the Philippines and ^ayan.- ^ have ouly to say by way of 

 introduction, that this paper is nip.re brief on some details than 

 others, because they form the subject of special papers in the 

 Proceedings of this Society. ' " .* 



JAVA. 



My objects in starting were mainly o f a scieutitk nature. 

 Geology and botany were the principal subjects of my inquiries, 

 but at the same time everything connected with natural history 

 had what attention I could give, while I lost no opportunity of 

 making collections in every department of natural science. 



I left Brisbane early in August, 1883, in the B. I. Co.'s Mail 

 Steamer " Chyebassa," bound for Java. After passing near 

 enough to Su in bawa to see some effects of volcanic act ion we 

 came in sight of Lombok, the peak of which, 11,000 feet high, 

 was grandly visible above the clouds, I lauded in the piiot boat 

 at Banjuwungi with two companions, Messrs. Weld-Blumlell and 

 W. Allen, M.P., intending to spend a couple of mouths in the 

 examination of the whole of the island of Java. I have already 

 {jublished an account of this portion of my travels through the 



