CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER L 



THE STRAJT Of SCNDA AKD BATAVIA, 



Object of the TraTfilfi descritwd in this voIukh; — Nearing the const of JaTa— 

 Balmy breezes of the Eastern lales— King bolus's favorite seat— A veil of 

 rain— First view of Malay &— Entering the Java Sea=-Thc Malay language- 

 Early liistory of Java— Marco Polo— Hiiidyi&m in Java— History of Batii- 

 via— The roadstead of BftitnYia— The city of Bata^ia— Houses of Europeans 

 —Mode of «Kiking—Charaot«rl sties of the Malaya— Collecting butterliic^ 

 Vm Ealiden Saleh— Attacked with a fever— receive a letter from the Gov- 

 ernor-Genaral , , . 1^-41 



CHAPTER n. 



aail from Batavia for the Moluccas— My companions- Mount Slama^The 

 north coast of Java — Mount Pralm— Temples at Boro Bodo and Bramba- 

 nan — Samaraiig — Mohammedan masque — History of Mohammedanism — 

 Mount Japara— The Guevo Upas, or Valley of P<rifion.xrGre3ik— Novel 

 mode of navigating mud-flats — Surabaya — Government dock-yard and ma- 

 chine-ahops— ZoologiLnl gardoBfi— History of Hinduism— The Klings— Ex- 

 cursion to a sugar plantation^Roads and telegraphic routes in Java- 

 Malay mode of gathering rice— The kinds of augar-canc . . 42-70 



CHAPTER la 



THE FLOEA ASD FAUNA OF THE TH0P1CAL EAST. 



Leave Simbaja for Macasiar— Madura— The SapJ— Manufacture of aait^Tbe 

 Tenger Mountains — Tlie Sandy Sea— Eruptions of Mount Papandajang and 

 Mount Galunggoiig— Java and Cuba compared— The forests o"f Java^Faiina 

 of Java— Tlie cocott-ttut palm— The Pandanus— The banana- Tropical fruits 

 -The mangoatin— The r,imbutftn—mango—duku—4urian— bread - fi uit- 



