VISIT TO GRISSEK. 



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cced. I managed, however, to recollect the words 

 M orang Ingries" (Englishman), which being put in 

 a tone of inquiry, was answered in the affirmative, 

 and I was immediately conducted to a house belong- 

 ing to Mr. Dean, an Englishman. He also was 

 away, but a young Dutchman in his employ spoke 

 English, and having understood what I wanted, sent 

 for a carriage and horses for me, and directed the 

 driver to take me to the caverns and bring me back 

 again. 



Grissck seemed rather a pretty town, the prin- 

 cipal street lined with two rows of very fine tamarind- 

 trees and very fair houses. A number of brigs 

 and schooners, and prahus and small country 

 vessels, lay off the pier, near which was a building- 

 yard belonging to Mr. Dean. My carriage was 

 like those of Sourabaya, with four small horses or 

 ponies, driven in hand by a Javanese, with another 

 man hanging* on behind, whose office it was to run 

 forward occasionally and flog the leaders. Sami, 

 also, my tambangan, perched himself behind the 

 carriage, and I could hear him explaining to the 

 other's inquiries, that I was an English colonel, be- 

 longing to the 11 kapal prang," or war ship. We 

 drove through a back part of the town, principally 

 occupied by native houses, made of bamboo, and 

 then got upon the great mail road, which runs from 

 Sourabaya to Batavia, or even from Banyu Wang)-, 

 at one end of the island, to Anjer at the other, a 

 distance by the road of between seven and eight 



