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Title: Across the Equator
A Holiday Trip in Java

Author: Thomas H. Reid

Release Date: December 18, 2008 [EBook #27556]

Language: English

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ACROSS THE EQUATOR.

[Frontispiece: TEMPLE, PARAMBANAN.]

ACROSS THE
EQUATOR.

A HOLIDAY
TRIP IN JAVA.

BY

THOS. H. REID.

KELLY & WALSH, LIMITED,
SINGAPORE--SHANGHAI--HONGKONG--YOKOHAMA.
1908.
[all rights reserved.]

PREFACE.

It was at the end of the month of September, 1907, that the writer
visited Java with the object of spending a brief vacation there.

The outcome was a series of articles in the "Straits Times," and after
they appeared so many applications were made for reprints that we were
encouraged to issue the articles in handy form for the information of
those who intend to visit the neighbouring Dutch Colony. There was no
pretension to write an exhaustive guide-book to the Island, but the
original articles were revised and amplified, and the chapters have
been arranged to enable the visitor to follow a given route through the
Island, from west to east, within the compass of a fortnight or three
weeks.

For liberty to reproduce some of the larger pictures, we are indebted
to Mr. George P. Lewis (of O. Kurkdjian), Sourabaya, whose photographs
of Tosari and the volcanic region of Eastern Java form one of the
finest and most artistic collections we have seen of landscape work.

SINGAPORE, _July, 1908_.

CONTENTS.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF BATAVIA 1

THE BRITISH IN JAVA 15

BOTANIST'S PARADISE AT BUITENZORG 23

ON THE ROAD TO SINDANGLAYA 33

SINDANGLAYA AND BEYOND 42

HINDU RUINS IN CENTRAL JAVA 49

THE TEMPLES OF PARAMBANAN 58

PEOPLE AND INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL JAVA 65

THE HEALTH RESORT OF EAST JAVA 7