LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Wives of one of the great Princes of Java (from a Photograph) Frontispiece
Poultry Vendor, Batavia „ Page 27
Government Buildings in Batavia „ 4
Sapis, or oxen from Madura „ 11
Javanese and family „ 33
Bahden Saleh „ 37
Bahden Saleh’s Palace „ 37
Watering the streets, Java „ 49
A Tandu „ .. 49
A Kling .. ' .. 63
A Native of Beloochistan (from a Photograph) .. 63
Fruit-Market 1 .. .. 89
The Pinang, or Betel-nut Palm (from a Drawing by Bahden Saleh) .. 180
After the hath (from a Photograph) .. 182
Musical Instruments of the Malays (Batavia) .. 191
Dyak, or Head-hunter of Borneo (from a Photograph .. 206
Landing through the Surf on the south coast of Ceram (from a Sketch) 209
The Lontar Palm .. 220
Ascent of the Volcano of Banda—saved by a fern (from a Sketch) .. 234
A Jungle .. .. .. .. .. .. .. • ................ 261
A Malay Opium-smoker (from a Photograph) .. - .. 281
The Gomuti Palm (from a Sketch) .. .. .. 370
The Bamboo .. 374
Approach to the Cleft near Padang .. 390
Women of Menangkaban .. .. 395
Scene in the interior of Sumatra .. 404
Driving round a dangerous Bluff .. .. 419
Suspension Bridge of rattan .. 428
Native of Nias .. 445
Natives of the Pagi Islands .. 482
Singapore ... 521
Biver Scene in Sumatra, on the Limatang .. 525
Natives of Palembang \ .. 530
Palembang—high water >
Killing a Python .. 541
Map of Sumatra To face page 384
Tomb of the Sultan—Palembang .. ..' 546
Map of the Eastern Archipelago at the end
T R A V E L S
IN THE
E AS T I N D I A N A R C H I P E L A G O .
CHAPTER I.
t t t t ? , STRAIT OF SUNDA AND BATAVIA.
On the 19th of April, 1865, I was fifty miles east
of Christmas Island, floating on the good ship “ Mem-
non ” toward the Strait of Sunda.
I was going to Batavia, to sail thence to the Spice
Islands, which lie east of Celebes, for the purpose of
collecting the beautiful shells of those seas.
I had chosen that in preference to any other part
of the world, because the first collection of shells
from the East that was ever described and figured
with sufficient accuracy to be of any scientific value
was made by Rumphius, a doctor who lived many
years at Amboina, the capital of those islands. His
great work, the “ Rariteit Kamer,” or Chamber of
Curiosities, was published in 1705, more than sixty
years before the twelfth edition of the “ Systema Naturae
” was issued by Linnaeus, “ the Father of Natural
History,” who referred to the figures in that work