TIIE 
JOURNAL 
OP THE 
THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO 
AND 
EASTERN ASIA. 
A TRIP TO PROBOLINGGO.* 
By Jonathan Rigg, Esq. 
Member of the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences f 
It having been arranged that the new barque Jane Serena should 
commence her adventures on the deep, by proceeding to Pahiton in 
Probolinggo to take in a cargo of Sugar for Singapore, 1 volunteer¬ 
ed to go with her in order to expedite her movements as much as 
possible, since the approach of the north west monsoon rendered 
it adviseable to despatch the vessel as soon as practicable from the 
eastern shores of Java. I embarked at Sourabaya on Sunday the 22d. 
November 1846, soon after day tweak, and, as the tide had already 
begun to turn in our favor, the anchor was immediately weighed, 
and we soon drifted eastward past the roadstead. 
The ship was under charge of one of the usual pilots of the port, 
who in this instance was country-born and appeared to be a steady 
respectable man, which cannot, however, always be said of his col¬ 
leagues. The approaches to the harbour of Sourabaya, from sea¬ 
ward, either on the west or east, being impeded by mud banks, 
where the strait disembogues upon the sea, it is necessary to keep 
up a pilot establishment for the security and facility of shipping. The 
approach fromjthe westward, past “Fort Lodewyk,” formerly called 
“ Fort Oratije,” and now transmogrified into “ Fort Erfprius,” is 
less practicable than that from the eastward, or from the sea, south 
of Madura, so that deeply laden vessels, both coming from and re- 
* In the east of Java : the richest sugar producing district in the island, 
- -j* Author of “ A sketch of the Geology of Jasinga.” (_ Verhandelingen v, 
k. Bat. Genoots, vol. xvii. p. 121) $ “ liespiegelingen over de Maleijers,” 
(Tjds. v. NeerL hid. 6- J. 2. o. p. 222.} fyc. 
VOn. II. NO, IX, SEPTEMBER, 1848. % 
