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Title: From Jungle to Java
The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India

Author: Arthur Keyser

Release Date: January 8, 2009 [EBook #27749]

Language: English

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FROM JUNGLE TO JAVA

THE TRIVIAL IMPRESSIONS OF A
SHORT EXCURSION TO NETHERLANDS INDIA.

BY ARTHUR KEYSER,

AUTHOR OF
"OUR CRUISE IN NEW GUINEA," "CUT BY THE MESS,"
"AN EXILE'S ROMANCE," ETC., ETC.

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FIFTEEN, VICTORIA STREET,
WESTMINSTER.

CONTENTS

I. A SELECT COMMUNITY 1

II. THE START 7

III. SINGAPORE 14

IV. ON THE WAY TO JAVA 19

V. BATAVIA 23

VI. AN OFFICIAL CALL 34

VII. A CONCERT AT THE CONCORDIA CLUB 39

VIII. CONCERNING THE LOMBOH WAR 44

IX. BUITENZORG 49

X. CUSTOMS AND COSTUMES 56

XI. AN UNTIMELY CALL 62

XII. A MODEL ESTATE 66

XIII. AMONG THE ROSES 76

XIV. GARVET 84

XV. BATHS AND VOLCANOES 89

XVI. THE QUEST FOR A MOTHER 94

XVII. THE QUEST CONTINUED. TJILATJAP 99

XVIII. THE QUEST SUCCESSFUL. THE
WODENA'S HOUSE 109

XIX. A VILLAGE HOME IN JAVA 115

XX. BACK TO THE JUNGLE 120

FROM JUNGLE TO JAVA

CHAPTER I.

A SELECT COMMUNITY.

Mr. X., whose impressions and mild adventures I have undertaken the task
of editing, has asked me to narrow his personal introduction to such
limits as is consistent with the courtesy due to my readers, if haply I
find any. He prefers, as his pseudonym implies, to re