THIS 
JOURNAL 
OF 
THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO 
AND 
EASTERN ASIA. 
TOUR FROM SOURABAYA, THROUGH KEDIRI, BLITAR, ANTANG, 
MALANG AND PASSURUAN, BACK TO SOURABAYA. 
By Jonathan Rigg, Esq.* Member of the Batavian 
Society of Arts and Sciences. 
On the 19th June, 1847? I started with Mr Lloyd, on a 
journey long contemplated, but for which no opportunity 
had before offered, viz., to the inland Residency of K£diri, 
and still more sequestered district of Blitar. The first part 
of our route lay over the flat delta of Sourabaya to Mojo- 
kerto. On the way, we visited the sugar mill of Waru, 
now belonging to Mr Kruseman, and also the new esta¬ 
blishment at Krian, belonging to parties in Holland, and 
principally under the control of the iron founders Paul van 
Ylessingen and Dudok van Heel. The Sugar Contract here 
was originally granted in Holland to General Nahuys, in 
consideration of services rendered in Java, but he soon 
found means to transfer his rights to others, who paid him 
a round sum to leave the matter in their hands the above 
mentioned founders interesting themselves for the sake of 
supplying the machinery. Of this we found a large quantity 
already brought here, and being fitted together. The esta¬ 
blishment is to be worked with vacuum pans, defecators, 
&c., but these will hardly be ready before the close of the 
year, meantime they have put up the usual open pans and 
had commenced to grind off the year's crop, the day pre¬ 
vious to our arrival. There is another small Chinaman'i 
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