Hindus--Mohammedans--Portuguese--English--Dutch-- Legal basis of Dutch possession--British occupation--Return of Dutch--Culture system-- Eruption of Mount Krakatoa 1 CHAPTER II. TRAVELLING AND HOTELS. Area--Climate--Permission to travel--Chief objects of interest--Means of locomotion--Language--Hotels 17 CHAPTER III. THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT AND THE NATIVES. Dutch possessions in the East--Government--Army and navy--Administration--Development of natives--Raden Saleh--Native dress--Cooking and houses--Rice cultivation--Amusements--Marriage ceremony 38 CHAPTER IV. BATAVIA. Tanjong Priok--_Sadoes_--Batavia--Business quarter--Telephoning--Chinese Campong--Weltevreden-- Waterloo Plain--Peter Elberfeld's house--Raffles and Singapore 62 CHAPTER V. THE HINDU TEMPLES. The temple remains generally--The connection between Buddha and Brahma--The Boro-Boedoer--Loro-Jonggrang 86 ANNEX: The Routes to the Temples 100 CHAPTER VI. BUITENZORG. Batavian heat--To Buitenzorg by rail--Buitenzorg-- Kotta Batoe--Buffalo--Sawah land--Sketching a Javan cottage 103 CHAPTER VII. THE BOTANICAL GARDENS. History of the Buitenzorg gardens--Teysmann-- Scheffer--Three separate branches--Horticultural garden--Mountain garden--Botanical garden-- Dr. Treub--Lady Raffles' monument--Pandanus with aërial roots--Cyrtostachys renda--Stelecho-karpus-- Urostigma--Brazilian palms--Laboratories and offices--Number of men employed--Scientific strangers 117 CHAPTER VIII. FROM BUITENZORG TO TJI WANGI. View of Mount Salak--Railway travelling in Java-- Soekaboemi--No coolies--A long walk--Making a _pikulan_--Forest path--Tji Wangi at last 134 CHAPTER IX. THE CULTURE SYSTEM. Financial system previous to the British occupation-- Raffles' changes--Return of the Dutch--Financial policy--Van den Bosch Governor-general--Introduction of the culture system--Its application to sugar--To other industries--Financial results of the system-- Its abandonment--Reasons of this--Present condition of trade in Java--Financial outlook 147 CHAPTER X. ON A COFFEE PLANTATION. The Tji Wangi bungalow--Coffee plantations-- Cinchona--Native labour--A wayang--Country-bred ponies--Bob and the ducks--Loneliness of a planter's life 169 CHAPTER XI. ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE. Mr. Wallace and the Malay Archipelago--Animals-- Birds--General characteristics of plants--European flora in mountains--Darwin's explanation--Fruits-- History of cinchona introduction--Mr. Ledger's story--Indiarubber 186 CHAPTER XII. SOCIAL LIFE.