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Tourists are welcomed cordially
and the customs officials are ef
ficient about it, so t*liat the first im
pression of Java is pleasant. Some
say that it is just as easy to get out I
of as into Java, hinting that the Dutch
resent misbehavior and unfair criti
cism and that undesirable visitors are
sometimes requested to leave forth
with.
Most visitors land at Tandjong Pri
ok, the harbor for Batavia, about sev
en miles from the city. This harbor
was built between 1877 and 1886, and
was considered one of the finest co
lonial harbors .in the world until some
of the British harbors excelled, and
now the Dutch are re-establishing their
claim for this distinction with the
harbor construction at Soerabaya. De
spite the fact that there are two har
bors, outer and inner, the commerce
of Batavia has really outgrown the
facilities offered by the present har
bor works.
The outer harbor has a depth of 26
feet, .and is protected by two break
waters, each 6,000 feet in length. The
inner harbor is some 3,500 feet long
and over 500 feet wide, with quays on
each side. The east quay has coaling
sheds. The piers are of concrete con
struction, with spur tracks from the
railway. The cost of this harbor was
over $10,500,000. %
Protected From Crocodiles.
About a quarter of an hour’s drive
from Tandjong, in one of those funny
antiquated hacks drawn by ponies, is
"Petit Trouville,” where sea bathing
may be enjoyed. The bathing pool is
inclosed to kee^ out crocodiles and is
probably perfectly safe, but I have
seen fences on land give way before
a rushing bull and a convenient tree
provided the protection which the
fence failed to give. So. I refrained
ffcjm enjoying the security of the
fenced-in pool. A crocodile is fully as
powerful and as fast as an infuriated
bull, and he is just as immune to rea
son. The Dutch have not provided
convenient trees as an extra safe
guard, but most of them know the
crocodiles by name and do not seem
afraid of them. It is different with
strangers.
The drive from Tandjong Priok to
Batavia is a fitting prelude to a tour
of Java. In this short drive, seven
miles or so, is found the happy* com
bination of good roads, an unsurpassed
luxuriance of tropical vegetation and
a kaleidoscopic whirligig of peoples,
native and foreign, dressed in their
own peculiar manners and going about
their business in their individual ways.
All the way to Batavia the road runs
along the canal, and along the canal
are rice fields, coconut groves, nativ?
settlements and a new surprise at ev
ery turn of the way. Tall coconut
palms reach out over the canal from
the great groves along the banks.
Nestled among them are the pictur
esque native houses with their bamboo
woven sides and thatched roofs; over
head is the turquoise blue sky so pe
peculiar to the tropics, and to intensify
its blueness are the cotton clouds as
{motionless as the palms.
The Goat an Institution.
All this beauty is shown both above
and below, for there in the canal is
the reflection of the whole scene, even
to the cattle, the sleek humped kind,
the buffalo and the goats. We must
not forget the goats. They are as in
evitable as they are innumerable.
Goats are to Java what dogs are to
America. They run at will aie ev
erybody’s friend.
If there is a fight or a fire, they
scamper about on the edge of the
crowd. If a tire blows out, there they
are, eagerly awaiting any scraps of
rubber or Cloth which may be thrown
away. They are the comedians of
metropolitan Java. In the provinces
there the monkeys are as funny as at
the zoo.
Well, this finds us in Java—and what
of this land to which we have come?
Was it Stubbs who said something to
the effect that we must know what
the past was if we are to appreciate
the present? Java contains so many
relics of the past that even a drive
through Batavia indicates past cen
to ries.
For hundreds of years before Co
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iuiuuus uiscovereu America, nmuu in
fluence was dominant In Java, and
then the bolsheviki came over from
Arabia and messed" things up. This
was in 1477.
The Portuguese peeked in at one or
two of the ports in 1511 and said:
“Sh-h-h! Quiet now, fellows. We
won’t do a thing to this place.” But
they did.
How Spoils Were Divided.
From then until 1529, it was nip
and tuck between the Spanish and
the Portuguese as to who could rob
the natives the more efficiently. The
contest ended in a draw and a treaty
gave rights of robbery in the Indies
to tlie Portuguese and similar rights
in the Philippines to the Spanish.
The Spanish got the best of the bar
gain, because they were not disturbed
until 1898, while the poor Portuguese
were kicked out of their territory by
the Dutch in 1596, before they had
half time to skin the natives.
Then the Dutch took over the no
ble work and drew up trading treaties
for presentation to the natives. To
all questions raised by the party of
the second part one reply was used—
“sign here.” When the natives
showed a reluctance the blunderbuss
or long sword made the fairness of
the treaty ^perfectly clear, as was cus
tomary ^mong the conquerors of those
early days.
uutcn Kuie now Kinaiy.
From then until 1895 Holland and
England fought like country cou
sins over possession of the islands,
and they finally whacked up and called
quits. England took parts of Africa,
all of Ceylon and spots along the
China coast, but left the Indies to
Holland, after taking a slice off Bor
neo and an end off New Guinea.
So we find the Dutch in possession
of Java and through their courtesy we
visit the island. Here we are in Ba
tavia, a community of many peoples
enjoying peace and prosperity under
the kindly Dutch rule.
The first thing to find is a hotel.
The finding impresses us with the in
dividuality of the country.
On three sides of a square is a two
story building. Each room has a spa
cious veranda in front, facing the
walkway which runs along the entire
length of the hotel. On the veranda
is a table and a big chair. If the
chair had wheels and a top it would
look like one of those victoVias so
much used by old ladies and small
town doctors, when the latter drove
horses, charged a dollar for house vis
its, 50 cents for office calls and fur
nished the pilltf as a sort of premium. *
Instead of the wheels and the top 1
the chair has extension arms about
four feet long, which swing out to
provide an elevated footrest. The
higher the temperature the more will
ing you are to sprawl as per the pos*
sibilities. It is on the veranda that
guests are received and siroopen and
soda is served. Great life.
Sun Provides Hot Showers.
At the back of the veranda is the
bedroom—for coolness a rugless, pic
tureless, cheerless place, with a skinny
iron bed, covered by a canopy of net,
sort of fortification against the mos
quitoes. Notice, I say “sort of.”
In every bed is a Dutch wife. Oh,
it’s quite proper! This lady thing
is merely an elongated pillow, hard
and round, upon which to rest one
knee. This position is cooler for
sleeping than to rest all on a level.
Out back of the rooms is another
walkway used by the boys. Boys in
Java may be anywhere from sixteen
to sixty as to age, but just so long as
they are servants, they ??Ve boys.
“Boy!” is the “call of the East.”
Somewhere along this walkway is
the bathroom, one of the most popular
recreation rooms in the hotel. The
water is in a pen built up in one cor
ner. On the floor are duck boards.
Somewhere around is a tin or wood
en bucket. The bath is taken by dip
ping water from the pen and pouring
it where most desired. Very satisfy
ing and refreshing.
Some hotels boast shower baths,
supplied from a tank on the roof. A
shower in the early morn is all right,
but usually by midday and certainly I
by night, the sun has made the water
too hot for comfort
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