Excerpt from A Journey to Java I wish to Offer my best thanks to my fellow travellers, Mr. And Mrs. Malcolm Giles, their niece, Miss Smith, and to Mrs. Shrimpton, for allowing me to use some of their photographs in this book. Also to Miss Butters, F. H. Sikes, Esq., and Professor F. Wright, of Washington, for their kind encouragement and eriti cism. But especially do I desire to acknowledge my indebtedness to Miss Edith Rowe for her unwearied expenditure of time and trouble in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.