. Java and her neighbours; a traveller's notes in Java Celebes, the Moluccas and Sumatra . jan, theForge. The first part of the way one travelsby native cart, and steamer rugs prove useful, forthe start must be made soon after dawn andthe air of the early morning is cool and is a drive of about eleven miles nearly duesouth to the village of Tjisoeroepan, some 4000feet up in the hills, where the carts are left behindand a light breakfast is taken at the Villa Paul-ine before resuming the journey on the tough,wiry, little mountain ponies. It seems curious inJava to take tea in preferenc
. Java and her neighbours; a traveller's notes in Java Celebes, the Moluccas and Sumatra . jan, theForge. The first part of the way one travelsby native cart, and steamer rugs prove useful, forthe start must be made soon after dawn andthe air of the early morning is cool and is a drive of about eleven miles nearly duesouth to the village of Tjisoeroepan, some 4000feet up in the hills, where the carts are left behindand a light breakfast is taken at the Villa Paul-ine before resuming the journey on the tough,wiry, little mountain ponies. It seems curious inJava to take tea in preference to coffee, but onealmost invariably does so after a few preliminaryexperiments, for the bitter essence of coffee thatis usually offered is far from satisfactory. Hardly had the confines of the village beenpassed after our start from the Villa Pauline be-fore we found ourselves mounting a steep trailbetween tea and coffee plantations. As tea andcoffee planting are two of the most importantindustries, not only of this Preanger country, butof all Java, let me give a few facts concerning. Photo by the AuthorTHE EXTRANXE TO ROYAL TOMBS, PASARGEDE THE PREANGERS 251 them. The Preangers produce a greater bulkof tea leaves than all the rest of the island. Theplants generally used are of the Assam varietyor hybrids of the Assam and Chinese,—larger thanthe pure Chinese. A locality of some elevationand of rich soil having been selected, the maturedseed is sown. As the young bushes grow up con-siderable care has to be taken to air the rootsby means of trenches, to remove weeds, and tosmoke the shrubs from time to time. It is nottill the third or fourth year that a crop can begathered, but thereafter each succeeding crop isbetter than the last, and the bushes continue toproduce for many years, if properly pruned andotherwise cared for. The colour of the commercialleaf, green or black, is indicative merely of thetreatment of the leaf after picking, a black colourresulting from the ferment
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