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                               NARRATIVE
                                OF THE
                      Circumnavigation of the Globe
                         BY THE AUSTRIAN FRIGATE
                                 NOVARA,

                (COMMODORE B. VON WULLERSTORF-URBAIR,)
           _Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government_,

                    IN THE YEARS 1857, 1858, & 1859,

         UNDER THE IMMEDIATE AUSPICES OF HIS I. AND R. HIGHNESS
                   THE ARCHDUKE FERDINAND MAXIMILIAN,
                COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE AUSTRIAN NAVY.

                                   BY
                           DR. KARL SCHERZER,

  MEMBER OF THE EXPEDITION, AUTHOR OF "TRAVELS IN CENTRAL AMERICA," ETC.

                                VOL. II.

                             [Illustration]

                                LONDON:
                      _SAUNDERS, OTLEY, AND CO._,
                   66, BROOK STREET, HANOVER SQUARE.
                                  1862.

                 [THE RIGHT OF TRANSLATION IS RESERVED.]


                    JOHN CHILDS AND SON, PRINTERS.




                               CONTENTS.


                                                                      PAGE

                               CHAPTER X.

                          THE NICOBAR ISLANDS.

    Historical details respecting this Archipelago.--Arrival at
    Kar-Nicobar.--Communication with the Aborigines.--Village of
    Saoui and "Captain John."--Meet with two white men.--Journey to
    the south side of the Island.--Village of Komios.--Forest
    Scenery.--Batte-Malve.--Tillangschong.--Arrival and stay at
    Nangkauri Harbour.--Village of Itoe.--Peak Mongkata on Kamorta.--
    Villages of Enuang and Malacca.--Tripjet, the first settlement
    of the Moravian Brothers.--Ulala Cove.--Voyage through the
    Archipelago.--The Island of Treis.--Pulo Miu.--Pandanus Forest.--
    St. George's Channel.--Island of Kondul.--Departure for the
    northern coast of Great Nicobar.--Mangrove Swamp.--Malay
    traders.--Remarks upon the natives of Great Nicobar.--Disaster
    to a boat dispatched to make Geodetical observations.--Visit to
    the Southern Bay of Great Nicobar.--General results obtained
    during the stay of the Expedition in this Archipelago.--
    Nautical, Climatic, and Geognostic observations.--Vegetation.--
    Animal Life.--Ethnography.--Prospects of this group of Islands
    in the way of settlement and cultivation.--Voyage to the Straits
    of Malacca.--Arrival at Singapore.                                   1


                               CHAPTER XI.

                               SINGAPORE.

    Position of the Island.--Its previous history.--Sir Stamford
    Raffles' propositions to make it a port of the British
    Government free to all sea-faring nations.--The Island becomes
    part of the Crown property of England.--Extraordinary
    development under the auspices of a Free Trade policy.--Our
    stay shortened in consequence of the severity of the cholera.--
    Description of the city.--Tigers.--Gambir.--The Betel
    plantations.--Inhabitants.--Chinese and European labour.--
    Climate.--Diamond merchants.--Preparation of Pearl Sago.--Opium
    farms.--Opium manufacture.--Opium-smokers.--Intellectual
    activity.--Journalism.--Logan's "Journal of the Indian
    Archipelago."--School for Malay children.--Judicial procedure.--
    Visit to the penal settlement for  criminals.--A Chinese
    provision-merchant at business and at home.--Fatal accident on
    board.--Departure from Singapore.--Difficulty in passing through
    Gaspar Straits.--Sporadic outbreak of cholera on board.--Death
    of one of the ship's boys.--First burial at sea.--Sea-snakes.--
    Arrival in the Roads of Batavia.                                   137


                             CHAPTER XII.

                                 JAVA.

    Old and New Batavia.--Splendid reception.--Scientific
    societies.--Public institutions.--Natives.--A Malay embassy.--
    Excursion into the interior.--Buitenzorg.--The Botanic Garden.--
    The <DW64>.--Prince Aquasie Boachi.--Pondok-Gedeh.--The infirmary
    at Gadok, and Dr. Bernstein.--Megamendoeng.--Javanese villages.--
    Tjipannas.--Ascent of Pangerango.--Forest scenery.--Javanese
    resting-houses or Pasanggrahans.--Night and morning on the
    summit of the volcano.--Visit to Gunung Gedeh.--The plantations
    of Peruvian bark-trees in Tjipodas.--Their actual condition.--
    Conjectures as to the future.--Voyage to Bandong.--Spots where
    edible swallows' nests are found.--Hospitable reception by a
    Javanese prince.--Visit to Dr. Junghuhn in Lembang.--Coffee
    cultivation.--Decay in value of the coffee bean of Java.--
    Professor Vriese and the coffee planters of Java.--Free trade
    and monopoly.--Compulsory and free labour.--Ascent of the
    volcano of Tangkuban Prahu.--Poison Crater and King's Crater.--A
    geological excursion to a portion of the Preanger Regency.--
    Native fete given by the Javanese Regent of Tjiangoer.--A day at
    the Governor-general's country-seat at Buitenzorg.--Return to
    Batavia.--Ball given by the military club in honour of the
    Novara.--Raden Saleh, a Javanese artist.--Barracks and prisons.--
    Meester Cornelis.--French opera.--Constant changes among the
    European society.--Aims of the colonial government.--Departure
    from Batavia.--Pleasant voyage.--An English ship with Chinese
    Coolies.--Bay of Manila.--Arrival in Cavite harbour.               180


                              CHAPTER XIII.

                                 MANILA.

    Historical notes relating to the Philippines.--From Cavite to
    Manila.--The river Pasig.--First impressions of the city.--Its
    inhabitants.--Tagales and Negritoes.--Preponderating influence
    of monks.--Visit to the four chief monasteries.--Conversation
    with an Augustine Monk.--Grammars and Dictionaries of the idioms
    chiefly in use in Manila.--Reception by the Governor-general of
    the Philippines.--Monument in honour of Magelhaens.--The
    "Calzada."--Cock-fighting.--"Fiestas Reales."--Causes of
    the languid trade with Europe hitherto.--Visit to the
    Cigar-manufactories.--Tobacco cultivation in Luzon and at the
    Havanna.--Abaca, or Manila hemp.--Excursion to the "Laguna de
    Bay."--A row on the river Pasig.--The village of Patero.--
    Wild-duck breeding.--Sail on the Lagoon.--Plans for
    canalization.--Arrival at Los Banos.--Canoe-trip on the
    "enchanted sea."--Alligators.--Kalong Bats.--Gobernador and
    Gobernadorcillo.--The Poll-tax.--A hunt in the swamps of
    Calamba.--Padre Lorenzo.--Return to Manila.--The "Pebete."--The
    military Library.--The civil and military Hospital.--
    Ecclesiastical processions.--Ave Maria.--Tagalian merriness.--
    Condiman.--Lunatic Asylum.--Gigantic serpent thirty-two years
    old.--Departure.--Chinese pilots.--First glimpse of the coasts
    of the Celestial Empire.--The Lemmas Channel.--Arrival in
    Hong-kong Harbour.                                                 281


                              CHAPTER XIV.

                               HONG-KONG.

    Rapid increase of the colony of Victoria or Hong-kong.--
    Disagreeables.--Public character.--The Comprador, or
    "factotum."--A Chinese fortune-teller.--Curiosity-stalls.--The
    To-stone.--Pictures on so-called "rice-paper."--Canton English.--
    Notices on the Chinese language and mode of writing.--
    Manufacture of ink.--Hospitality of German missionaries.--The
    custom of exposing and murdering female children.--Method of
    dwarfing the female foot.--Sir John Bowring.--Branch Institute
    of the Royal Asiatic Society.--An ecclesiastical dignitary on
    the study of natural sciences.--The Chinese in the East Indies.--
    Green indigo or Lu-Kao.--Kind reception by German countrymen.--
    Anthropometrical measurements.--Ramble to Little Hong-kong.--
    Excursion to Canton on board H.M. gun-boat _Algerine_.--A day at
    the English head-quarters.--The Treaty of Tien-Tsin.--Visit to
    the Portuguese settlement of Macao.--Herr von Carlowitz.--
    Camoens' Grotto.--Church for Protestants.--Pagoda Makok.--Dr.
    Kane.--Present position of the colony.--Slave-trade revived
    under the name of Chinese emigration.--Excursions round Macao.--
    The Isthmus.--Chinese graves.--Praya Granite.--A Chinese
    physician.--Singing stones.--Departure.--Gutzlaff's Island.--
    Voyage up the Yang-tse-Kiang.--Wusung.--Arrival at Shanghai.       355


                                CHAPTER XV.

                                SHANGHAI.

    A stroll through the old Chinese quarter.--Book-stalls.--Public
    Baths.--Chinese Pawnbrokers.--Foundling hospital.--The Hall of
    Universal Benevolence.--Sacrificial Hall of Medical Faculty.--
    City prison.--Temple of the Goddess of the Sea.--Chinese
    taverns.--Tea-garden.--Temple of Buddha.--Temple of Confucius.--
    Taouist convent.--Chinese nuns.--An apothecary's store, and what
    is sold therein.--Public schools.--Christian places of worship.--
    Native industry.--Cenotaphs to the memory of beneficent
    females.--A Chinese patrician family.--The villas of the foreign
    merchants.--Activity of the London Missionary Society.--Dr.
    Hobson.--Chinese medical works.--Leprosy.--The American
    Missionary Society.--Dr. Bridgman