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Java, the wonderland : [Guide and tourist's hand book] This book describes one of the most beautiful countries in the world Page 25

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Arnhem: Thieme, 1900, pg 25

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2.i ill' ITENZOHG. fluLwAv-oxNrL'rIoxS. Express Irains to Balavia in the early niorning and a fternoon. E'~xJ)ress trains to Padalarang, Ilandoengami Giiroet and connecting at Padalarang with express to ~\Iaos leave oflce a (lay only in the early IllOrflhiJg. Tra vellers. going to Soekaboemi, have 6 trains a day those to Sin- (langlaja arc adviccd to take the earl morning train to Tjandjoer in order to arrive hel~)re lunch at Sinda ngla;a-hotel. Through a charming conibi na- tion of Ii ills, river 1(11(1 WOO(llafl(l scenery the tourist is carried in a corn fortable train to Bwten~org ccalled Bogor by the nativcs~ a distance of about 70 mm. `[`here are two good hotels. The hotel Bcllevue and the Hole! do (]hemi,i de /~`r, situated near the station. The first mentioned Hotel is fiIll(ot(s for its Motirta in-rooms, which give an excellent view over the river and the mount Salak. i\liss Scidinore describes her i inprcssions of this view as follows: At daylight we saw that our portico looked full U~Ofl the Iron of mount Safak, green to the S it ((1 ttiit \Vi Ui plantations and primeval lorests. Deep down below us lay a valley of Eden, w'liet'e thou- sands of pa liutrees were iii constan notion, their branches bending, sway- ing, and fluttering as softly a~ ostrich- j)l (Hues to the eve, tnt I with a stra nge, harsh, metallic rust he and clash, different from the wfi ispers and sighs and cooing sounds of telliperate tot nage. As stronger winds threshed the heavy leaves, the level of the va 11ev rippled and tossed in green billows like a t rlev-field `there \vaS a basket village on the riyerha nk, where tropic life Went on in ~ plain pantomime as in any stage presentation. At Sunrise the people came out of their fragile toy houses, stretched th('jr arms to the sky and vawneth, took a swim in the river, and then Jo ing Ji'oiii i/u' in urkel.
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