sentences:  Van Hoëvell traveled widely, studied languages and artifacts, and visited local Muslim rulers; he judged the threat of Islam to be much less insidious than the restrictions from the Dutch government or the danger posed by domestic Catholics.He was awarded with knighthood in the Order of the Netherlands Lion in 1847.He became a friend and correspondent of Eduard Douwes Dekker, who under the pseudonym Multatuli published "Max Havelaar", the 1860 satire that exposed colonial corruption in Java; Dekker was one of the first subscribers to "Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indië".