| [CHAPTER I.] |
| HISTORICAL ACCOUNT UP TO THE PRESENT DAY. |
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| Hindus—Mohammedans—Portuguese—English—Dutch—Legal basis of Dutch possession—Britishoccupation—Return of Dutch—Culture system—Eruption of Mount Krakatoa | [1] |
| [CHAPTER II.] |
| TRAVELLING AND HOTELS. |
| Area—Climate—Permission to travel—Chief objects ofinterest—Means of locomotion—Language—Hotels | [17] |
| [CHAPTER III.] |
| THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT AND THE NATIVES. |
| Dutch possessions in the East—Government—Army andnavy—Administration—Development of natives—RadenSaleh—Native dress—Cooking and houses—Ricecultivation—Amusements—Marriage ceremony | [38] |
| [CHAPTER IV.] |
| BATAVIA. |
| Tanjong Priok—Sadoes—Batavia—Businessquarter—Telephoning—Chinese Campong—Weltevreden—Waterloo Plain—Peter Elberfeld's house—Rafflesand Singapore | [62] |
| [CHAPTER V.] |
| THE HINDU TEMPLES. |
| The temple remains generally—The connection betweenBuddha and Brahma—The Boro-Boedoer—Loro-Jonggrang | [86] |
| Annex: The Routes to the Temples | [100] |
| [CHAPTER VI.] |
| BUITENZORG. |
| Batavian heat—To Buitenzorg by rail—Buitenzorg—Kotta Batoe—Buffalo—Sawah land—Sketching aJavan cottage | [103] |
| [CHAPTER VII.] |
| THE BOTANICAL GARDENS. |
| History of the Buitenzorg gardens—Teysmann—Scheffer—Three separate branches—Horticulturalgarden—Mountain garden—Botanical garden—Dr. Treub—Lady Raffles' monument—Pandanus withaërial roots—Cyrtostachys renda—Stelecho-karpus—Urostigma—Brazilian palms—Laboratories andoffices—Number of men employed—Scientific strangers | [117] |
| [CHAPTER VIII.] |
| FROM BUITENZORG TO TJI WANGI. |
| View of Mount Salak—Railway travelling in Java—Soekaboemi—No coolies—A long walk—Makinga pikulan—Forest path—Tji Wangi at last | [134] |
| [CHAPTER IX.] |
| THE CULTURE SYSTEM. |
| Financial system previous to the British occupation—Raffles' changes—Return of the Dutch—Financialpolicy—Van den Bosch Governor-general—Introductionof the culture system—Its application to sugar—Toother industries—Financial results of the system—Its abandonment—Reasons of this—Present conditionof trade in Java—Financial outlook | [147] |
| [CHAPTER X.] |
| ON A COFFEE PLANTATION. |
| The Tji Wangi bungalow—Coffee plantations—Cinchona—Native labour—A wayang—Country-bredponies—Bob and the ducks—Loneliness of aplanter's life | [169] |
| [CHAPTER XI.] |
| ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE. |
| Mr. Wallace and the Malay Archipelago—Animals—Birds—General characteristics of plants—Europeanflora in mountains—Darwin's explanation—Fruits—History of cinchona introduction—Mr. Ledger'sstory—Indiarubber | [186] |
| [CHAPTER XII.] |
| SOCIAL LIFE. |
| Dutch society in the East—Batavian etiquette—English residents—Clubs—Harmonie—Concordia—Lawn-tennis—Planters—Horse-racing | [207] |
| [CHAPTER XIII.] |
| THE HINDU JAVANESE LITERATURE. |
| The Hindu Javanese literature concerned with thepast—Javanese alphabet—Extent of Javanese works—Kavi dialect—Krama and Ngoko—The Mahabharata andthe Ramayana in Kavi—Native Kavi works—The ArjunaVivaya—The Bharata Yuddha—Episode of Salya andSatiavati—Ethical poems—The Paniti Sastra—Localization of Hindu mythology in Java | [223] |
| [CHAPTER XIV.] |
| WORKS OF THE MOHAMMEDAN PERIOD. |
| Uncertainty about the history of the Hindu kingdomsgiven by the chronicles—Character of the babad,or chronicle—Its historical value—Brumund's treatmentof the babads—Account of the babad "Mangku Nagara"—Prose works—The Niti Praja—The Surya Ngalam—Romances—The Johar Manikam—Dramatic works—ThePanjis—Wayang plays—Arabic works and influence—Thetheatre—The wayang | [241] |
| [CHAPTER XV.] |
| SINGAPORE. |
| Batavia and Singapore—Raffles' arrival in the East—Determines to oppose the Dutch supremacy in theArchipelago—Occupation of Java—Is knighted—Returnsfrom England—Foundation of Singapore—Uncertaintywhether the settlement would be maintained—Hisdeath—Description of Singapore—Epilogue | [263] |
