A TRir TO TROUOLINGGO. 603 
and in the neighbourhood of Binor saw plenty of wild pigs crossing 
the road. 
I returned to Probollingo with the Jane Serena on the morning 
of the 2nd. December, and immediately despatched her on her in¬ 
tended voyage, proposing to return myself overland to Sourabaya. 
Probolinggo is a thriving little place and much improved since I saw 
it in 1839. Several neat brick built European houses have lately 
sprung up, amongst which is an hotel, though rather too small when 
three or four Europe Dutch ships are loading in the roads and the 
Captains living on shore. The bouse of the Assistant President is 
roomy and lately rebuilt; on a piece of ground near it, it is in con¬ 
templation to build a church. A large new p&ssar, with convenient 
open sheds covered with tiles, has lately been established on the 
eastern confines of the town. The great extension of the sugar cul¬ 
tivation in this province has given rise to this prosperity. The 
greater part of the town lies between the great post road and the 
sea. The residency however, is on the south side of this road, fac¬ 
ing a broad street which leads off at right angles to the sea. 
Here are situated most of the new houses above alluded to. This 
street runs in a straight line to the Alun Alun, and may be nearly 
half a paul long, and has trees planted on either side. In the cor¬ 
ner at the Alun Alun is the Dalam of the Regent, and opposite to it 
an oblong brick enclosure, by way of an excuse for a fort, where a 
few Javanese troops are lodged. A little away behind this, are the 
government warehouses and the harbour all constructed about 8 or 
9 years ago for the convenience of collecting and shipping the su¬ 
gar, coffee and other produce of the surrounding country. The 
coast here is an even fiat beach without any natural port, creek or 
inlet. With the augmenting produce, it was therefore found necessary 
to construct some suitable place of shipment, and this has been done 
by excavating a basin round which the warehouses are built, and 
from which a harbour or canal leads out to the sea between two ar¬ 
tificial piers called the “ Brukan,” constructed of masonry and 
coral rock. The tide rises and falls here about 8 feet, but the 
newly constructed harbour is found to suffer from silting, and what 
the south east monsoon piles upon the coast is not found to work 
away clear when the winds change and blow from the opposite di¬ 
rection ; at low water a tambangan can hardly pass out to seaward. 
A little before the tide was at its lowest, I myself in a light ship’s 
gig had much difficulty in getting out after sticking in the sand. 
