ElfTEBOTG THE JAVA SEA, 



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taeked under the part passing around the body, m 

 as to form a rude knot. There is a man in the stem, 

 sitting with his feet under hinij steering the canoe, 

 and at the same tiiue helping it onward with his 

 padtUe. He is dressed in a close-fitting red shirt? 

 No ! He is not encumbered with any clothing ex- 

 cept what Nature has provided for him, save a nar- 

 row cloth about his loins, the usual working-costume 

 of the coolies, or poorer classes. He brings several 

 kinds of bananas^ green cocoa-nuts, and the " pom- 

 pelmus," which is a gigantic orange, fi'dm sis to 

 eight inches in diameter. He seems perfectly happy, 

 and talks with the most surprising rapidity. From 

 an occasional word that may be half English, we 

 suppose, like traders in the Western world, he is 

 speaking in no moderate manner of the value of 

 what he has to sell. 



Mount Karang, back of Angir, now comes into 

 view, raising its crest of green foliage to a height of 

 five thousand feet ; a light breeze takes us round Cape 

 St. Nicholas, the northwest extremity of Java. It is a 

 high land, with sharp ridges coming dovm to the 

 water, thus forming a series of little rocky headlands, 

 separated by small sandy bays. These, as we sail 

 along, come up, and open to our view mth a most 

 chamiing panoramic effect. Near the shore a few 

 Malays are seen on their prans, or large boats, while 

 others appear in groups on the beaches, around theii 

 canoes, and only now and then do we catch glimpses 

 of their rade houses under the feathery leaves of the 

 cocoBrnnt palm. 



We are in the Java Sea It seems veiy stranga 



