346 



CHAPTER XVIIL 



Leave Sydney — Eottenes Island — Colonial prospects — 



chor in Batavia roads— The n'ver — Alligators — Streets of 

 Batavia— M. Choulan's tavern^ — Forests — Java ponies — 



—Celebrated Javanese chief—Sketch of his life and ac» 

 i^oQs— 'Exactloos of the Dutch goveiwaent — The maig- 



Bried specimen of tbe It^iuKmn^iis* 

 On the 14th of March t left Sydney, in the ship 



$c»2lib^ p&$gage»1&# iiritiid^ obliged us % pass 

 round Van Diemaii*s Land. On fli^ SSad, 



Sehoiiten's Island" was seen bearing west by 

 south, and St. Patrick's Head,*' north-west by 

 compass, about twenty-five miles distant ; and 



m ibe gStC ^® Mtar hm west by soutli- 



half-west by compass ; distant about thirty miles. 



We had to beat against strong westerly winds ; 

 and ;it noon, of the *2*Jnd of April, D'Eutrecas- 

 teaux J*oint bore east by north, distant about 



