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Rh 5. Leave the Hotel, cross one of the bridges of Molenvliet, and walk through the avenue of Berendrecht to the New Church, in the neighbourhood of which there is a great Chinese house of prayer and over Passer-Bahroe to Goenoeng-Sahri. Then turn to the left (northward) in order to reach the lower town, along the picturesque and well shaded road Jacatra returning by tram, after having rapidly glanced over the Portuguese Church, which dates back to 1693, and outside of which is the tombstone of Governor-General Swaerdecroon.

6. Lovers of sea-bathing can go by one of the first trains in the morning to Tandjong-Priok, where conveyances can be hired (f 0.75) to the bathing-place, "Petit Trouville," situated on the sea, an hour's drive farther to the East.

For f 1. — you can bathe in a place partitioned off, and rendered safe against crocodiles, whilst a refreshment-room affords opportunity for appeasing hunger and thirst.

7. The Museum. (Called by the natives Roema Gadja. The pride of the city and one of the most creditable things on the island is the museum "of the Batavian Society of Arts & Sciences (Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen) known sufficiently to the world of science and lettters as the Batavian Society. The museum is housed in a beautiful Grecian building whose white walls are shaded by magnificent trees, and which faces the broad Koningsplein. The halls, surrounding a central court, shelter a complete and wonderful exhibit of Javanese antiquities and art works, of arms, weapons, implements, ornaments, costumes, masks, basketry, textiles, musical instruments, models of boats and houses, examples of fine old metal-work and of all the industries of these gifted people. It is a place of absorbing interest.

There is a treasure-chamber heaped with gold shields, helmets,