. Java and her neighbours; a traveller's notes in Java Celebes, the Moluccas and Sumatra . nication had beenestablished with the shore, and in a trice, escortedby the man of our choice, our baggage on the backsof his myrmidons, we were hurried to the adjacentshed of the customs to undergo a somewhat per-functory examination for firearms before beingallowed to pass on to the railway station a fewyards farther. The railroad carries no baggagefree and it is best to leave everything heavy tothe tender mercies of the mandoer or head manof the hotel, who sees to its delivery at ones roomsin town at
. Java and her neighbours; a traveller's notes in Java Celebes, the Moluccas and Sumatra . nication had beenestablished with the shore, and in a trice, escortedby the man of our choice, our baggage on the backsof his myrmidons, we were hurried to the adjacentshed of the customs to undergo a somewhat per-functory examination for firearms before beingallowed to pass on to the railway station a fewyards farther. The railroad carries no baggagefree and it is best to leave everything heavy tothe tender mercies of the mandoer or head manof the hotel, who sees to its delivery at ones roomsin town at the earliest possible moment and at aminimum of expense. The ride from the port to the hotel and residen-tial district of the capital, Weltevreden, was one ofrather less than half an hour, but the atmosphereseemed oppressive after the fresher air of the opensea, and even the first-class compartment wasstuffy and uncomfortable, filled as it was withperspiring men and women and peevish tracks run through a low, flat, swampy coun-try all the way, for some distance paralleling a.
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