4d.) for half a day, so that an hour's business in the morning and a visit in the evening costs 16s.8d.a day for carriage hire alone.
Batavia agrees very well with Mr.Money's graphic account of it, except that his "clear canals" were all muddy, and his "smooth gravel drives" up to the houses were one and all formed of coarse pebbles, very painful to walk upon, and hardly explained by the fact that in Batavia everybody drives, as it can hardly be supposed that people never walk in their gardens.

The Hotel des Indes was very comfortable, each visitor having a sitting-room and bedroom opening on a verandah, where he can take his morning coffee and afternoon tea.

In the centre of the quadrangle is a building containing a number of marble baths always ready for use; and there is an excellent table d'hote breakfast at ten, and dinner at six, for all which there is a moderate charge per day.
I went by coach to Buitenzorg, forty miles inland and about a thousand feet above the sea, celebrated for its delicious climate and its Botanical Gardens.

With the latter I was somewhat disappointed.

The walks were all of loose pebbles, making any lengthened wanderings about them very tiring and painful under a tropical sun.