Viewing page 168 of 283

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

I go ^[[to]] those at Boro-Bordor, Prambanan and Mendoet which are very famous and easily visited. Batavia and Buitengong both beautiful and of course, sleepy and exquisitely clean. The scenery is magnificent and the trees, foliage and vegetation the most fascinating I have ever seen. No land can be cleaner or fresher looking It rains every day!!

A ship acquaintance- Mr. Pear's of soap fame -< you see I am in a clean land and in clean company> is travelling with me as far as Garoet. The temples beyond are too hard for him. I have a Malay servant who speaks a very few words of English who is highly recommended and who is to accompany me throughout