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Updated: July 29, 2025
Is it within driving distance?" I inquired. "Yes." "Can I take a sadoe?" "Yes, certainly." There were several sadoes outside the station at Soekaboemi. As my knowledge of Malay, the recognized language for communication between natives and Europeans, was strictly limited, I asked my new friend to find out if the Malay "boy" knew where Tji Wangi was.
Most of the Javan coffee is sent off to Europe while it is still in the husk, in order that it may present a better appearance in the European markets. At Tji Wangi, however, the whole work of preparation was done on the estate. As is well known, the civilized world is indebted for its increased supply of quinine to Mr. Charles Ledger, the naturalist. In a subsequent chapter I have given Mr.
At Tji Wangi I had an opportunity of witnessing this performance in its simplest form, i.e. the wayang klitik, in which the puppets are exhibited themselves to the audience instead of being made to project shadows on a transparent screen. Here, as at most plantations, it was customary for the weekly market, held after pay-day, to be followed by a wayang.
The average size of the Javan coffee plantations is from 400 to 500 acres. At Tji Wangi there were 500 acres laid down in coffee, and 300 in cinchona. Part of the plantation was new, and H had done some clearing since he had taken over the estate. He described the process. The first thing to be done was to clear the forest.
At Tji Wangi from 125 to 600 coolies were employed according to the season of the year.
Hiring a conveyance drawn by three ponies abreast reminding him of his early youth when he would wonder at a smart turn-out in the Park at home three ponies abreast driven by a well known leader of society and fashion, before the days of two-wheeled pony carts and bicycles, X. told the driver to go to Tji Panao, and looked forward to spending a delicious half hour lying in warm water like that of the springs in New Zealand, which send the bather forth invigorated and refreshed.
After waiting some moments, I confided my troubles to a bystander, addressing him in French, which is spoken by the Europeans in Java almost as much as Dutch. Fortunately Tji Wangi the unpronounceable name of H 's plantation seemed to be well known, and he grasped the situation at once. "You ought to have gone to Tji Reingass," he said; "the coolies will be there." "How far am I from Tji Wangi?
Batavia and Singapore Raffles' arrival in the East Determines to oppose the Dutch supremacy in the Archipelago Occupation of Java Is knighted Returns from England Foundation of Singapore Uncertainty whether the settlement would be maintained His death Description of Singapore Epilogue. A fortnight after my visit to Tji Wangi I left Java.
When an hour had passed and there were still no signs of the plantation, I began to feel less cheerful. I stopped and interrogated the cooly. He smiled blandly. He at least was suffering from no misgivings. Like the young man in "Excelsior," he pointed upwards. We met some natives; I accosted them with "Mana Tji Wangi?" They too pointed up the mountain.
Much had been talked of about the hot baths at Tji Panao, and so the traveller determined to make that his first excursion.
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