386 TRAVELS IK THE EAST INDIAN ARCHIFELAGO. 



here the barges tate in their cargoes. This part of 

 the city is chiefly filled with the storehouses and 

 offices of the mei-chants. In front of the governor's 

 residence is a large common. Two of its sides are OC' 

 cupied by private residences and the church, the roof 

 of which has fallen in, and indeed the whole structure 

 is in a most dilapidated condition compared to the rich 

 Club-House on the other side of the gi'een. Having 

 landed and taken up my quarters at a hotel, I called 

 on Governor Van den Bosche, who received me polite^ 

 ly, and said that the inspector of post?*, Mr. Theben 

 Terville, whose duty it is not only to care for trans- 

 porting the mails, but also to supervise and lay out 

 the post-roads, had just anived from Java, and must 

 make an overland journey to Siboga, in order to exam- 

 ine a route that had been proposed for a post-road 

 to that place. 



He had promised the inspector, who was an old 

 gentleman, the use of his " Ameiican " a light four- 

 wheeled carriage made in Boston. There was room 

 for two in it, and he would propose to the inspector 

 to take me with him, and fiiii;her provide me with 

 lettei-s to the chief officials along the way ; but as it 

 would be two or three days before Mr. Terville, who 

 was then in the interior, would be ready to start, he 

 proposed that I should leave the hotel and make 

 my home with him as long as I might remain in 

 Padang. " Besides," he added, I have eight good 

 carriage-horses in the stable, and I have so much 

 writing to do that they are spoiling for -want of exer- 

 cise ; now, if you will come, you can ride whenever 

 you pleiwie " So again I found myself in the full tide 



