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Updated: May 6, 2025
No Europeans can live here, so unhealthy is it, nor can even one night be passed in this quarter with impunity. The upper town which is named Weltereoden, "well content" consists of Government House and the houses of all the officials and merchants in Batavia.
Batavia is intersected by canals, the largest or main canal running alongside the road leading from the lower town to Weltereoden. As we drove along we saw hundreds of natives taking their morning dip in the dirty stream; though, as a matter of fact, they have no fixed time for their ablutions, but bathe at all hours of the day and night. We reached the "Nederlanden" after half an hour's drive.
Preparations for Departure Leave Sarawak A Squall A Dutch Dinner Batavia Weltereoden Life in Java Buitenzorg Koerapan Dutch Soldiers A Review Modes of Execution in the Archipelago The World-Wide Circus Return to Singapore Leave for Europe Gibraltar.
There are two ways of reaching Weltereoden from Old Batavia, by railway and tramcar. Where are there not tramcars now? Even the stately streets of Stamboul are not free from them. The street cab of Batavia is a "dos-
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