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Java, Facts and Fancies
Augusta de Wit
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The native boats appeal to merrier thoughts. With the staring white-and-black goggle eyes painted upon the prow, and the rows of red, yellow, and green lozenges arranged like scales along the sides, they remind one irresistibly of grotesque fishes for those big children, the Javanese, to play with—at housekeeping. For keep house they do in their boats. They eat, drink, sleep, and live in the prao. A roof of plaited bamboo leaves helps to make the stern into the semblance of a hut; and here, whilst the owner pushes along the floating home by means of a long pole and a deal of apparent exertion, his wife sits cooking the[48] rice for the family meal over a brazier full of live coals; and the children tumble about in happy nakedness. Javanese babies, by the way, always seem happy. What do they amuse themselves with, one wonders? They do not seem to know any games, and play. . . Read More
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Wonderful image of old time Java. Felt like walking trough Batavia's streets.
colonial travelogue with boring prose and lots of racism
Enthusiastic report from female traveler across East-Indies. The impression that the writer render throughout her journey was Java as the fairy-land with rich soil and enervating climate. Muddy rivers over the hills and vales, sprouting rice of admirable irrigation and filled with vibrant-color land