10 
BATAVIAN COSTUMES, 
hind. The arrangement of the sarong is simply 
this reversed, with the advantage that walking is 
not impeded. And how cleanly is the hihia. A 
lady puts on a fresh one twice or thrice a-day, — 
a frequency with which one could scarcely put a 
dress aside as soiled ; and the wearer always looks 
cool and at ease. 
Gentlemen wear a very loose and untrimmed 
form of the habia, and wide, gay - patterned 
pyjamas as sleeping- dress, which they do not 
put off until it is time to dress for the day. 
They walk about the courtyard and even be- 
yond for a short stroll, with the addition only 
of a short tweed shooting-jacket, and are very 
ludicrous figures as the wind blows out the loose 
garments like sails in a breeze. This dress does 
not become them ! 
Between 7 and 9 breakfast is laid out in the 
dining-room, and when it suits you, you enter : 
one of the many waiters brings coffee and eggs, 
and draws within reach a few of the numerous 
plates of sliced cold meat and sausage which 
are spread over the table. To one accustomed 
to an English breakfast, that offered here is very 
unappetising, but it is simply a go-between, and 
a good appetite awaits breakfast or tiffin at 12 
or 12.30, when no one could complain of want 
