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Emily Richings
Through the Malay Archipelago
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066176235
Table of Contents
GORONTALO AND THE EASTERN COAST.
THE WESTERN COAST AND THE HIGHLANDS.
JAVA.
Batavia and Weltevreden—Buitenzorg—Soekaboemi and Sindanglaya—Garoet and her Volcano—Djokjacarta—Boro-Boedoer—Brambanam—Sourakarta—Sourabaya and the Tengger.
Makassar and Western Celebes—The Minahasa—Gorontalo and the Eastern Coast.
The Western Coast and the Highlands.
PENANG.
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. Lured onward by the scented breeze in that eternal search for perfection destined to remain unsatisfied where every step marks a higher ideal than the one already attained, the pilgrim pursues his endless quest, for human aspiration has never yet touched the goal of desires and dreams. The cocoanut woods of Ceylon and her equatorial vegetation lead fancy further afield, for the glassy straits of Malacca beckon the wanderer down their watery highways to mysterious Java, where vast forests of waving palms, blue chains of volcanic mountains, and mighty ruins of a vanished civilisation, loom before the imagination and invest the tropical paradise