. William H. Seward's travels around the world. ough the East, and are already in Europe. We drove to the Hotel des Indes, the first tavern we have had 282 THE EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO, ETC. occasion to seek since we left Salt Lake City, if we except the Chi-nese inns on the way from Peking to the Great Wall. This hotelis a building of one story, surrounding a circular court, with ahigher central edifice, which contains the prop3r offices, drawing-rooms, and saloons, a veranda surrounding the whole. The outerbuildings, occupied as private apartments, are connected by corri-dors with the centre buil
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. ough the East, and are already in Europe. We drove to the Hotel des Indes, the first tavern we have had 282 THE EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO, ETC. occasion to seek since we left Salt Lake City, if we except the Chi-nese inns on the way from Peking to the Great Wall. This hotelis a building of one story, surrounding a circular court, with ahigher central edifice, which contains the prop3r offices, drawing-rooms, and saloons, a veranda surrounding the whole. The outerbuildings, occupied as private apartments, are connected by corri-dors with the centre building. In a scrupulously neat bathing-house attached to our apartment, we enjoyed, for the first time, thefull luxury of an Oriental bath, for the bath has not yet been suc-cessfully introduced into the European settlements in Japan andChina. This bath consists of a marble basin fifteen feet in diame-ter, the water exactly the temperature of the air, clear, and deepenough for swimming. It being Sunday, we composed ourselves early for the enjoy-. MARKIED WOMAN OP JAVA. ment of a New-England Sabbath, a day of absolute rest. But thiswas not to be. A host of native street-pedlers had followed us to MALAY SERVANTS. 283 the hotel. They sat down and chattered on the veranda, theycrowded into our parlor, singly, by pairs, and by the dozen, and,in spite of repulse and remonstrance, forced upon us a display oftheir cheap but ostentatious wares. For the first time, we havemaintained a resolution against the itinerant merchant, yieldingonly in the case of a blind trader. Even he left us, at last, wearywith our delay in finding the guilders required for the we called him back and bought a pair of green-velvet gold-embroidered slippers. Breakfast at twelve. Its excellence, con-trasting with that of breakfasts at home, was that nothing on thetable was hot. On what principle is it that Europeans in the Eastsmother the delicate flavor of rice in thirty or forty piquant con-diments \
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