EXCURSION TO THE EASTERN PART OF THE ISLAND. 59 
I often got shots at all the above from the high road by 
stopping the carriage and jumping out. 
After remaining a short time in Batavia and its neigh- 
bourhood, and being very anxious to see as much as I could, 
the Governor General offered me a passage to Soerabaya on 
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tVART HOG OF JAVA {Sue verrticesus). 
the eastern coast of the island, near which town a friend of 
mine had a susrar mill With him I remained some time 
making most interesting excursions to the Tengger mountains 
and to the volcanoes of the Bromo and the Smeroe. I was 
fortunate to be accompanied by a very pleasant travelling 
