The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-29

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ilizations.
Mr.. walcott began his trip through
the Dutch East Indies at Singapore.
from which port a two days trip by
the Dutch mail steamer landed him in
Tandjong Prick, the port Of modern
Weltevreden and old Batavia. OF the
latter ancient city, whose picturesque
II malarious canals still testify to the
naive efforts of the Dutch settlers to
reproduce the joys Of the homeland
under tropical skies, there are now
but sorry remains. The town hall, a
few old mansions. n church and a sec
ton of the old city wall pleasantly
decorated with the whitewashed skull
of a certain half caste traitor, are the
only sights" to be visited in what
was once grandiloquently christened
the "Queen OF the Orient" and also.
much more appropriately, the white
Mans Grave" In Weltevreden, the
new section OF Batavia, the ruling
race. grown wise through experience.
have built up a modern sanitary city
with an architecture and a mode of
life suited to the climate.
Whether a traveller has the time to
make a cruise Of the eastern Islands
of the Malay Archipelago or must
confine his wanderings to Java alone,
Mr.. Walcott recommends a trip by
BOAT from Batavia to Soerabaya,
thence TO the volcanoes in the Teng-
ger Mountains Of eastern Java, and
returning by rail through the length
Of the island. Mr.. Walcott himself
spent three months In the Insulinde,
and in that time he not only made a
cruise of the eastern islands and "did"
Java with considerable t~horoughness.
but he also accomplished a coasting
trip up the west coast Of Sumatra.
turning the northern end of that
island and ending his wanderings at
the island of Penang. off the west
coast of the Malay Peninsula.
AS soon as MIR. Walcott emharks for
Socrahaya the conviction Is forced
upon the most optimistic reader that
fastidious or crochety tourists had
better Confine their Investigations to
the whereabouts OF Batavia, with per-
laps a trip to the world famous Boro
Boedoer, or stay at home altogether.
For there are trials both of the flesh
and the spirit. Mr.. Walcott describes
his first night out en- route for Soera-
baya as follows: My cabin looked
| roomy and cool and turned in early,
prepared to enjoy a good nights rest,
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| out when in the dim light from the
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