Excerpt from Java and Her Neighbours: A Traveller's Notes in Java, Celebes, the Moluccas and Sumatra HE Dutch East Indies, despite their excep tional natural attractions, and the safety and comfort with which they may be visited today, are still comparatively unknown to the world of travellers and to the greater world of stay-at homes. Java alone, of all the islands, has become to any appreciable extent the resort of English or American tourists or pleasure-seekers. The only comparatively recent books in English that nar rate actual travel experiences in the Dutch Indies have confined their attentions to Java, where the conditions described have already changed con siderably for the better. It is for these reasons that I have ventured to write up in the following pages the notes of my three months' wanderings in Java, Celebes, the Moluccas, and Sumatra, in the hope that they inay prove of use to some at least of the ever-increasing army of travellers and of interest to others who by preference or of necessity do their travelling by proxy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.