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Title: Through the Malay Archipelago

Author: Emily Richings

Release Date: December 5, 2008 [EBook #27422]

Language: English

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THROUGH THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO ***

Through the
Malay Archipelago.

BY
EMILY RICHINGS.

Author of
"Sir Walter's Wife," "In Chaucer's Maytime," &c.

LONDON:
HENRY J. DRANE, LIMITED,
DANEGELD HOUSE, 82A, FARRINGDON STREET, E.C.

O hundred shores of happy climes!
How swiftly streamed ye by the bark!
At times the whole sea burned--at times
With wakes of fire we tore the dark.

New stars all night above the brim
Of waters lightened into view;
They climbed as quickly, for the rim
Changed every moment as we flew.

We came to warmer waves, and deep
Across the boundless East we drove,
Where those long swells of breaker sweep
The nutmeg rocks, and isles of clove.

For one fair Vision ever fled
Down the waste waters day and night,
And still we followed where she led,
In hope to gain upon her flight.

CONTENTS.

Prologue.

JAVA.

Batavia and Weltevreden--Buitenzorg--Soekaboemi
and Sindanglaya--Garoet and her Volcano--
Djokjacarta--Boro-Boedoer--Brambanam--
Sourakarta--Sourabaya and the Tengger.

CELEBES.

Makassar and Western Celebes--The Minahasa--
Gorontalo and the Eastern Coast.

A Glimpse of Borneo.

THE MOLUCCAS.

Ternate, Batjan, and Boeroe.

Ambon.

Banda.

The Solo-Bessir Isles.

SUMATRA.

The Western Coast and the Highlands.

A View of Krakatau.

PENANG.

Epilogue.

PROLOGUE.

The traveller who reaches those enchanted gates of the Far East which
swing open at the palm-girt shores of Ceylon, enters upon a new range
of thought and feeling. The first sight of tropical scenery generally
awakens a passionate desire for further experiences of the vast
Archipelago in the Southern Seas which girdles the Equator with an
emerald zone. Lur