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211 CHAPTER VII.

We started next day early in the morning, which was bright and balmy, for Passeroewan, arriving there about eight Here we supplied ourselves with monetary and other necessaries, after which we made preparations for a long drive on a blazing hot day, by no means the most agreeable prospect.

I sent my inland passport to be viséd as usual, and when the hotel servant returned, I perceived the words "for Batavia" endorsed on the back, to which was affixed the Resident's signature. The whole composition, being in Dutch, was to me perfectly unintelligible. I therefore referred to my landlord, who, from his long residence in Java, had acquired a good knowledge of the language. On my showing him the superscription, he called Rh