The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-18

The Resident seemed about thirty five years OF srs well
eye and skeptics smile played upon hi. lips as spoke
Of my voyage In little ship and visits TO outot the
way islands without cargo or freight fixed haven
IN view II Will seem strange said the Resdent
plain matter offact trading Hollanders ofs
sailing with good vessel lit for valuable use me
dAcunha poor potato patch for whaler-the bleaker
one Of ST. Psusa roosting and nesting place for gus
and boobies, or to visit the pestilenta coast
Sumatra.
observed that my cruise would not have seemed
strange to the plain and trading Hoanders Of the ak
teenh and seventeenth century when the rowing Hout
and Heemskeks folio we'd In the footsteps Of
de Abreu and other of Portugal over the
dull sea had crossed to seek out what there was rich
rare IN desert or peopled islands, but the monopoly
which some Of those Hollanders founded did think
strange OF independent rovers who after them and
seized ire vessel OF one-the brave Rog0eween-who
chose 10 stop in these seas without leave.
But the rowing Houtmans and Hemskerks as YOU term
them came with sanctions from home to seek In an
ned OF adventure for new outlets and markets for The
trade OF the faherland and they founded aud those
followed after them reared up power which won the
% - ~ Augse"een, or any one who should come
now wlthout leave to depart from the shores of any
island in the Indian seas.
They went forth, SAID with that sanction only which
every commander OF ship carries with him, who has
submitted to the marine police regulations county
and proceeds in general quest Of market They went
indeed into an open field of for the rich lands
OF the Maiays and the Javanese had been q common
plunderDg ground for Arabs, Portuguese and English
long before The coming OF the power The former
had mepaeed the shores of the great islands of the Arch
pe)ago with shadowy aud unsubstantial dominion and
it did not seem that more than that done now.
IL Will not seem so to you Aner said the Resident
with some warmth who have deemed the Spanish terri
tory OF Cuba nm field for adventure which have
lately failed to annex and fifty Of your countrymen,
with the sen of one OF your statesmen their head
expiated at the garrote the penalty OF the failure land
as the Resident sad this he held up newspaper CON
tanning the news of tho ill fated expedition Of opez)
NY heart sckenened as heard for the first tme--and
Deng the first news from home-he details
with bitter insulting comment in the Dutch official paper
OF Batavia OF The scourgng and strangulaton mis-
guded men who we're slain at the Moro and therefore
1t vas perhaps with some little rising emotion, that
The community Of the American people has not sought
10 make an adventlrng ground of any welse domi-
Mon has placed those of its citizens who have done
50 beyond the pale Of s protection Some these were
led to believe that the great body Of the natives Of Cuba
did not desire the presence of twenty thousand alien
fore they went vt their hazard aid in driving the
oppressors away They failed, and suffered the PAIN of
their own individual failure and that of the Ameri
can people TO annex the island ofCuba.
And then other matters in relation the East Inian
Archipelago discussed from different points of
view After time the subject changed the sprit
OF polite taunt laid aside and the i'll su ppres ec
scow that bad darkened the face Of the Resident gave
way to an Official smile as he led the way to the Resi-
ihus at the threshold OF Netherland India, met
with strong anti American feeling, cloaked under
guse OF diplomatic poeness; and this believe to be
the feeling of Dutch officers generally the East Eng.
land has been the former of fear and jealousy
now America since the movement towards Japan takes
her place az rival with Heiand for share of the mono
poly of the East India Archipelago.
The captain, amongst other marvels, relates some
startling chronological pecuarities of the races by
which the islands of the Archipelago are peopled.
The following will, no doubt, revive good deal of
ingenious speculation amongst the learned in such
matters:-
THE oRANG KUBU, OR BEINGS OF DOUBTFUL
HUMANITY.
neard gruH animal sounds mingled with rustes,
jumps and shakes amid the but rs vet had
seen nothing Of what caused them sprang out Of the
boat and Bahdoo, without bideing, quickly followed
the sailor after him. with the cabine in his han d. the
neavy leaps and shakes continued and after time
gazing upward, got glimpse amid thick bower Of
foliage at height of about eighty eet of dark brown
form seeming to me large human being; and when
Pahdco saw It, be cried out Orang kubu Orang Kubu!
raised shout and we all cried out at the top of
voices. struck at some low dropping limbs with the
pike in my hand and then heard rustles and eaping
sounds at other points in the great treetops
came nearer to vew and then could partly very
human like form holding little creature with very
The sailor bad raised the carbine, and was about to
fire. when bid him stop ii seemed like murder to shoot
at that human face, for had heard something of wild
and hairy races roaming in the forests from the
waters OF PalembaDg. l again raised a shout-Bahdoo
made peculiar piercing cry, and again the creature
moved 1t eaped, others leaped and the huge tree shook
Downward came the sounds, leaping rustling crashing
then dark bodies shot before u.s. down. plunge into the
creek
We had stood with weapons grasped expecting an At.
tack; but after hearing quick founder and splash In
the water up sprang FIVE or six large creatures for
the thick forest on the other side
While was eating my curry. real mild saycsy East
Indian curry prepared by Bahdoo and while slipping the
fragrant tea Of my friend Linn Boo Seng the costlies
leaf brought from the centre Of China and gathered
be said by monkeys certain inaccessible rocky edges
on mountain SIDES and while proving the merits of the
mangoes brought BY the Demang-a vister was an
nounced, and the young surgeon from the Bali bark
He was curious to know what had seen and met with
and expressed regret that had not sgnifed desire
rfVpUA I'm AvIx
dvergng river branch, the covered creek the brittle
stony woods the gutta percha limb the ieeches the In
had entered, said my visiter, the Djarang strait or
channel connecting the Meosee with the Rantoo Steuuo
. branch of the palembang waters which joins the
soonsapg not far from the campong soonsang. There
several Of these channels divergng from the main
branch of the Moosee the Padang Kamoodee Com Bang
0opapg, Bjarang, Troosapg Punchian Chear and Ran
too Stenno forming numerous deltas, which are much
subject to nundation during the monsoon
that was why nearly ali the cabins we had were
deserted at that time but said he, they will be peoped
again the return of the southeastern monsoon
crop will be planted and gathered before the
In other parts Of sumatra said the intelligent officer
whore vegetation is even more exu5erant than you be
win meet with many deicioasy EMPOWERED lakeets and
canoped c-eeks like the you assembled and in the
interior there large tracts of country thckly
with huge tmbers Of ancient date, some half and
wholly carbonized according to the heat Of
superintendent soil which they have been subjected
lie had often suffered from the little swamp leech
achih, which deferred me from further miaeraIogi
'al. 'rches Europeans wore neither garments that
cal reese tight around the ankles whenever obliged
could DC "a ,mpy tracts Of country in sumatrs and
% traverse sw, ives pass marshes With bare legs
borneo' me nht. y remove the eeches they leap
nas 'tss which, they can the more readily do
LOOK afasnt rgs and lei and round about them
like Europeans. - :, -.
abundance on the western coast especially in The terri
tory Of Bencooen where tracts Of ten and twelve miles
square we're almost entirely covered With this salla,e
cum tree The native name gutah percha, signifies oand
or ribbon gum probably becau IT is commonly formed
into strips various purposes; but one OF the native
names Of this isand being percha II may nave oeen n
TO call il the gum Of Sumatra Traders VINO care
little about names have changed The gatdh to quito, as
they have eay,i ptee to ca and orang ntdn to orang
ntaag which latter signifies debtor instead OF wlI
man 10 the ears OF a Malay And then be commented
mon the human like that had SEEM he hau
bea much about wild race of human shaped beings,
covered with hair called ordng bu, or brown men VINO
we're TO be found in the country north OF palemDang
between IL and the territory OF Jambee hving on s
streams that flow into the Banyoo ASSN, but ne had
never heard OF them upon the Moosee any OF its own
branches vet need not be surprising that the kubns
should be found upon the Moosee and Its branches rs
there was n direct communication by cross channels
betwes il and the Banyoo ASSN.