A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore

The Netherlands India, as the Dutch possessions in the East are officially styled, includes the whole of the Malay Archipelago, with the exception of the Philippine Islands belo...

When the prosperity of the Dutch East India Company was at its height, the city of Batavia[9] was justly entitled the "Queen of the East." Apart from the fact that this place wa...

Uncertainty about the history of the Hindu kingdoms given by the chronicles--Character of the _babad_, or chronicle--Its historical value--Brumund's treatment of the babads--Acc...

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...

Batavia and Singapore--Raffles' arrival in the East-- Determines to oppose the Dutch supremacy in the Archipelago--Occupation of Java--Is knighted--Returns from England--Foundat...

Of the many travellers who have written accounts of their visits to Java, not one has been explicit in his directions as to the ways and means of reaching the various interestin...

No less than eight years (1854--1862) were employed by Mr. Wallace, the naturalist, in "the study of man and nature" in the Malay Archipelago. During this period he collected a...

Of the temple ruins of Java, considered generally, Mr. Wallace says, "It will take most persons by surprise to learn that they far surpass those of Central America, perhaps even...

The Hindu Javanese literature concerned with the past--Javanese alphabet--Extent of Javanese works-- Kavi dialect--Krama and Ngoko--The Mahabharata and the Ramayana in Kavi--Nat...

In the centre of that region of countless islands termed not inaptly the "Summer of the World," midmost of the Sunda group of which Sumatra lies to the west, and Flores to the e...

Among the twenty or thirty tropical gardens established in the colonial possessions of the various European Powers, three stand pre-eminent--those of Calcutta, the Peradenia Gar...

Boston is not the only place in the world which has decided upon insufficient evidence that it is the centre of the universe. We all of us have a weakness for the special form o...

Once in Java, and a visit to Buitenzorg is a matter of course. In the first place, Buitenzorg is to the Dutch possessions in the East what Simla is to British India; and, in the...

It is two in the afternoon, and I have just taken the curious Javan meal called _rice-table_. Everyone else in the hotel, visitors and servants alike, are asleep. The doors of m...

which he succeeded, after various adventures, in the course of which occurred the death of his faithful Indian servant, Manuel, in procuring a small quantity of _Cinchona calisa...

Horace's remark,[18] "Those that cross the sea change temperature, not temperament," is especially true of the Englishman out of England. The room in which I was now seated diff...

Batavia and Singapore--Raffles' arrival in the East-- Determines to oppose the Dutch supremacy in the Archipelago--Occupation of Java--Is knighted--Returns from England--Foundat...

Uncertainty about the history of the Hindu kingdoms given by the chronicles--Character of the _babad_, or chronicle--Its historical value--Brumund's treatment of the babads--Acc...

The Hindu Javanese literature concerned with the past--Javanese alphabet--Extent of Javanese works-- Kavi dialect--Krama and Ngoko--The Mahabharata and the Ramayana in Kavi--Nat...

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...