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Updated: May 17, 2025
At Tji Wangi from 125 to 600 coolies were employed according to the season of the year.
The king acknowledged the truthfulness of their story, saying he had heard the same himself; and both Wakungu, as is the custom in Uganda, thanked their lord in a very enthusiastic manner, kneeling on the ground for no one can stand in the presence of his majesty in an attitude of prayer, and throwing out their hands as they repeated the words N'yanzig, N'yanzig, ai N'yanzig Mkahma wangi, etc., etc., for a considerable time; when, thinking they had done enough of this, and heated with the exertion, they threw themselves flat upon their stomachs, and, floundering about like fish on land, repeated the same words over again and again, and rose doing the same, with their faces covered with earth; for majesty in Uganda is never satisfied till subjects have grovelled before it like the most abject worms.
I afterwards learnt that these traditions of Oriental etiquette were preserved by the Dutch and English planters in the interests of discipline. As the plantations are often long distances apart, the Europeans have to rely upon moral force to maintain their ascendency. Another half-hour passed and still no signs of Tji Wangi.
Pangi is the favourite hero of the wayang gedog, though he is not represented so exclusively as in the theatre. In both of these wayangs the dalang often improvises the dialogue with which the narrative is interspersed. I have described the wayang klitik in my account of my visit to Tji Wangi.
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.
When the natives have been educated and the industries of the island freed from unnatural restrictions, financial and commercial prosperity will return to Java. The Tji Wangi bungalow Coffee plantations Cinchona Native labour A wayang Country-bred ponies Bob and the ducks Loneliness of a planter's life.
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.
"I sent you down a horse that would have brought you up within the hour. You should have gone to Tji Reingass; that is our station, not Soekaboemi. Johnston ought to have known. Come in." In H 's comfortable den I soon forgot the various contretemps of my journey to Tji Wangi.
H 's nearest European neighbours were seven miles away, and he said that he could seldom entertain visitors at Tji Wangi, because of the scarcity of game in the neighbourhood. Indeed, the loneliness of the life is its great objection. The case of the Dutch planters is rather different. They are often married, and with their managers, form quite a little society of their own.
Nothing remained for me but to pay my mendacious Malay half the number of florins he demanded and follow my new guide. As a matter of fact, Tji Wangi was ten miles away on the other side of the Goenoeng Malang, or Cross Mountain. This, of course, I did not know, and so I set off cheerfully up the side of the mountain.
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