CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER X 
J>AGE 
Eastward ho ! — -Colombo — The Java coast — Batavia— Hotel 
life — The sarong and kabia — A Batavian breakfast — 
The new town — Chinese peddlers — The Javanese, . 1 
CHAPTER IL 
Java, Buitenzorg — Botanic garden— Morning walks— 
Visits of ceremony — Song of the cicada — Mosquitoes 
—Life in the tropics — A native feast— The theatre — 
Dances — Our route, • . . .19 
CHAPTER LIL 
At sea — Dutch official migrations — Samarang — Straits of 
Mednea — Surabaya — Mermen and mermaids — Cargo of 
birds — Characteristics of Java — The Dutch colonial 
system, . . . . . .30 
CHAPTER IV. 
Macassar — Its trade — Gathering cocoa-nuts — Macassar 
prahus — The Dutch and their native servants — Catholic 
settlement — Crossing the Banda Sea — Cupang— Timor 
beads — A Chinese gentleman — The governor of Timor, 42 
