The Hawaiian gazette., 1870-04-06

JAVA AND ITS DUTCH RULERs.-Now, in all the
mountainous parts, each family is compelled to cu
tyate its 600 coffee trees subject regular govern
ment nspection-compelled to sell the produce to
the Government buyers. The coffee fetches in Eu-
rope advance of 200 per cent. the prices paid
TO the growers. 1t is the with the sugar plan
tations in the plain below. The cane must be
brought to the factories established by private
coiesstoHdie who is entitled to exact forced labor
who buys the produce at fixed price, sells the
sugar to the government at fixed price-the gov
ernment gives 13f for what commands 76f in Hol-
and-and who pays himself by retaining third of
the unmanufactured article dispose of In the open
market. In their brutal simplicity, NJ de Beau
voir expresses it, these figures have yielded the most
startling results After paying all the Island outlay
Java has been known to send to Holland nearly four
millions sterling in single year, while for 32 years
the average has been considerably over two millions
Assuredly the system would seem to vindicate itself
the of its success, whatever may be said for
its morality. H soil 4HI lal
The FIRST railway in Java is being made by free Ia
Dor, and railway means progress and the dissemina
tion of free ideas. But if means Of communication
defective now the travelling in Java is the most
picturesque in the world-and we wish we had
space to spare for NJ de Beauvorss spirited account
of his. The island is Paradise, although Paradise
after the Fall The air. fragrant with Spices is often
tainted with the poison of swamps; venomous SER
pents glide through the flowers and tigers swarm in
the under growth The heat is overpowering and
the curious tourist has to choose between travelling
in the dark or in perpetual Turkish bath. Making
the tour Of the island is driving through an immense
hothouse, with its strange and superb vegetation,
where the broad, rich masses of green relieved
by perpetual blaze of color. The roads, stretching
through vast gardens of cultivation are shaded with
stately palms and bananas. Grand volcanic ranges
tower over the landscape, with rich coffee planta-
tions soping up to the prmeval forests. Landing
at Batavia the traylers found themsevee arrived at
their hotel, in the middle of the town, before they
suspected they had left the country; the main street
they approached it by was a magnificent avenue and
shrubbery Their journey through the island reads
like progress in fairy land. But everywhere the
pitiful subserviency Of the people accompanied and
shocked them as running commentary on Dutch
rule. Not only by the roadside but in the distant
brakes the natives sank PROSTATE on their faces
at the apparition of the whites When they came
to a hill the laborers hocked from their LAHORE to
lend their shoulders the wheels when they forded
a man, woman and children turned out of their vii
lages to drag their carriages through 1t.
meets in Mexico and Yucatan, they found in the
Buddhist remains buried away in the jungles, ten
centuries old at least there stupendous architecture
and elaborate sculpture bning boldness and del
icscy. They were received magniheenty by the
two native digDtares who suffered to retain the
title of Sultan with something more than reflected
power. One OF the two had never before opened
his gates to an European traveller, but even
that proud potentate wore the uniform OF Dutch
colonel and close by his Javanese Versailles, where
10000 inmates anticipated the behests of the despot
rose the fort Of the Dutch resident with its garrison
of 500 men, to look after the interests Of the two
Europeans in his kingdom They hunted the rhi-
and they chased the crocodile and in either
case, NJ de Beauvoir eandidly avows, came home
with empty bags. On the summit Of one OF the
loftiest mountains they experienced tropical thun-
der storm in the crater Of volcano, and most haz-
ardous feat of ALL perhaps, they crossed at gaIIop
one of those Javanese suspension-bidges, flung
across profound ravine, swung from lofty cocoa
| trees, woven of bambo bark and the long tropical
/ creepers.-FFoDs the London Times