THE EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO, 
CHAPTER I. 
EASTWARD HO! COLOMBO THE JAVA COAST BATAVIA 
HOTEL LIFE THE SARONG AND KASJA A BATAVIAN 
BREAKFAST THE NEW TOWN CHINESE PEDDLERS 
THE JAVANESE. 
Buitenzorg, April 8. 
You have doubtless long ago heard by tele- 
gram of my safe arrival in the East ; but you 
must be impatient to learn some details of my 
experiences. 
Forty-one days after leaving England by the 
Queensland mail we had passed through the 
Sunda Straits ? and were winding among the 
Thousand Isles towards the port of Batavia. 
Before reaching the Butch Indies, I had a fore- 
taste of tropical beauty in a day on shore at 
Colombo in Ceylon ; and partly because all was 
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