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Updated: May 28, 2025
A native Javan, in full dress, is now seen advancing into the square, followed by two coolies or porters, one carrying a bundle of straw, the other a lighted torch. The straw is thrown over the box, and the torch-bearer stands ready to set fire to it at the end where the tiger's head is, the box being too narrow to permit his turning round in it.
The system continued in full operation until the year 1871, when the Home Government passed an Act providing for the gradual abandonment of the Government sugar plantations. By the year 1890 sugar, by far the most important of the Javan industries, was practically freed from Government interference. At the present time it is in debate whether or not the coffee industry should be similarly treated.
A three days' voyage brings one to Abydos, which is upon an arm of the sea which flows between the mountains, and after a five days' journey the great town of Constantinople is reached. It is the capital of the whole land of Javan, which is called Greece. Here is the residence of the King Emanuel the Emperor.
The collection includes the Javan black-capped pigeon, and the parrot and aromatic pigeons of India. The next case is devoted to the common European turtle and the North American migratory pigeon.
Pernis cristata. Perrier, M., on sexual selection; on bees. Perseverance, a characteristic of man. Persians, said to be improved by intermixture with Georgians and Circassians. Personnat, M., on Bombyx Yamamai. Peruvians, civilisation of the, not foreign. Petrels, colours of. Petrocincla cyanea, young of. Petrocossyphus. Petronia. Pfeiffer, Ida, on Javan ideas of beauty.
Wrenn, apparently fastened to New York like a domestic-minded barnacle, lay the possibilities of heroic roaming. He knew it. He, too, like the man who had taken the Gaumont pictures, would saunter among dusky Javan natives in "markets with tiles on the roofs and temples and and uh, well places!"
One of the most interesting facts connected with the Javan flora is the appearance of European flowers upon the higher levels of the mountains.
Neglected by her husband, and placed by her birth in an uncertain position between Javan and European women, the poor girl had neither the education of the latter, nor the domestic qualities inherent in the former. Subsequently Dr. Selberg passed some time in Von N.'s house, and his account of what there occurred is not very creditable to the tone and morals of Javan society.
As a Mohammedan, a Javan peasant is permitted to have as many as four wives, but he can rarely afford more than one, or two at the most. Tanjong Priok Sadoes Batavia Business quarter Telephoning Chinese Campong Weltevreden Waterloo Plain Peter Elberfeld's house Raffles and Singapore.
Rubies, sapphires and spinels are found in Pegu. Diamonds are found in several places, as in Bisnagur, Agra, Delhi, and the Javan islands. The best pearls come from the isle of Bahrein in the gulf of Persia; and an inferior sort from the fisheries near Ceylon, and from Ainan, a large island off the southern coast of China.
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