CHAPTER Xn.
SUMATRA.
On tlie tliird day from Macassar we arrived
safely at Surabaya, and thence proceeded westward to
Samarang, and, on the first of February, 1866, I was
again in Batavia, having been absent in the eastern
part of the archipelago eight months. Through the
courtesy of Messrs. Dummler & Co., of that city, who
obligingly offered to receive and store my collections
and forward them to America, I was left entirely
free to commence a new journey.
The generous offer of the governor-general to give
me an order for post-horses free over all parts of Java
was duly considered; but as many naturalists and
travellers have described it already, I determined to
proceed to Sumatra, and, if possible, travel in the
interior of that unexplored island, and, accordingly,
on the 12th of February, I took passage for Padang
on the Menado, the same steamer in which I had
already travelled so many hundred miles.
From Batavia we soon steamed away to the Strait
of Sunda, and once more it was my privilege to behold
the lofty peaks in the southern end of Sumatra.
From that point as far north as Cape Indrapura
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