item: #1 of 7 id: 27152 author: Worsfold, W. Basil (William Basil) title: A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore date: None words: 50667 flesch: 67 summary: To this is attached a crosspiece or yoke (_depar_), fitted with a pair of long pegs coming over the necks of the oxen or buffaloes, and a crosspiece hanging under their necks and fastened to the yoke by native cord. houses here instead of _hot_ houses. keywords: account; achin; acres; addition; administration; afternoon; air; ancient; animal; arabic; archipelago; arms; arrival; authority; avenue; average; babad; bamboo; bandong; bantam; bark; basis; batavia; bath; beauty; best; big; boedoer; boro; botanical; boy; brahma; branches; bright; british; broad; brown; buddha; buildings; buitenzorg; bumi; business; capital; carriage; cart; case; central; centre; century; ceremony; certain; ceylon; chapter; character; chief; children; chinese; chronicles; cinchona; city; class; climate; close; club; coffee; colonial; common; company; complete; condition; conduct; connection; conquest; considerable; coolies; cost; countries; country; course; court; crop; cultivation; culture; curious; dalang; dark; date; day; days; different; difficulty; dinner; distance; districts; djokja; double; dressed; dry; dutch; dutch government; east; eastern; effect; elberfeld; end; england; english; established; european; evening; excellent; existence; expenditure; extent; face; fact; family; famous; feet; fifth; financial; fine; fish; florins; flowers; foliage; following; footnote; force; form; free; french; fruit; gardens; gedé; general; good; government; governor; grass; great; green; ground; groups; growth; half; hand; handsome; head; heat; heavy; height; higher; hindu; historical; history; holland; home; horses; hotel; hour; house; illustration; important; india; industries; information; interesting; interior; introduction; island; java; javanese; johore; kavi; king; knowledge; known; labour; lady; language; large; late; leaves; left; letter; level; life; like; line; literature; little; long; looking; malay; mangku; manner; manuel; mass; means; merchants; miles; military; mind; modern; mohammedan; money; months; morning; mountain; museum; mynheer; nagara; native; native princes; natural; nature; near; necessary; neighbourhood; netherlands; new; night; number; numerous; object; occasion; occupation; offices; officials; old; open; opposite; order; ordinary; original; outside; page; palms; particular; peasants; people; period; permission; persons; place; plain; plantations; planters; plants; poems; point; policy; population; portuguese; possessions; possible; power; present; princes; private; produce; public; purpose; quarter; quinine; race; racing; raffles; railway; recent; red; religion; religious; remains; remarkable; residence; residents; respect; return; revenue; rice; rights; river; roads; room; routes; ruins; sacred; sadoe; salak; samarang; sarong; saw; sawah; scientific; sea; second; seed; separate; settlement; ship; short; similar; simple; singapore; single; sir; size; sleep; slopes; small; social; society; soekaboemi; soerabaia; south; southern; special; species; spite; square; stamford; state; station; stone; streets; subjects; subsequently; sufficient; sugar; sultan; sumatra; sun; sundanese; supply; supremacy; susunan; system; table; tanjong; tax; tea; temple; tennis; terraces; theatre; thought; time; title; tji; total; town; trade; train; traveller; travelling; trees; treub; tropical; tropics; useful; usual; valuable; value; vast; verandah; versions; view; village; visit; visitor; volcanic; wages; wallace; walls; wangi; war; water; waterloo; wayang; weltevreden; west; western; white; women; wood; wooden; works; world; years; young cache: 27152.txt plain text: 27152.txt item: #2 of 7 id: 27503 author: De Windt, Harry title: On the Equator date: None words: 30824 flesch: 66 summary: The latter were, however, _bonâ fide_ ones, some 400 years old, and came from China. Sickness, death, and every kind of misfortune, are attributed to the latter, while _Batara_ is the accredited author of every blessing. keywords: a.m.; afternoon; aline; animal; appearance; archipelago; armed; arrival; attack; bad; bakar; bamboo; bank; batavia; bazaar; beautiful; bed; best; black; board; boat; borneo; box; branches; brass; breakfast; bright; broad; brooke; brunei; building; buitenzorg; bull; bungalow; cabin; cadiz; canoes; capital; chapter; charge; chief; china; chinese; chulos; climate; close; coast; coffee; cool; country; crew; curious; cut; day; days; death; deck; dense; departure; determined; dinner; distance; district; dutch; dwelling; dyak; easy; effect; end; english; entrance; ere; espada; european; evening; exception; expedition; face; fall; far; feast; feet; fine; flat; following; footnote; force; forest; fort; french; fresh; ghita; gold; gongs; good; government; great; green; grey; ground; hair; half; hand; hard; head; high; home; horses; hotel; hour; house; huge; human; impossible; interior; island; james; java; jok; journey; jungle; kanowit; kapit; katibus; kayans; kuching; landing; large; late; leading; leave; left; length; life; like; little; living; long; look; looking; lupar; malay; man; matang; matters; miles; months; morning; mountain; mouth; natives; near; night; north; number; o'clock; occasion; officer; old; orang; order; palm; paris; past; path; people; performance; place; pleasant; point; pole; poor; pox; preparations; pretty; principal; quarters; race; raja; reader; red; rejang; resident; return; rice; ring; river; room; ruai; running; sadong; santubong; sarawak; scenery; sea; set; seville; ship; short; sibu; singapore; sir; size; sleep; small; sorry; spain; spanish; species; square; standing; state; station; stay; steamer; stone; stream; summit; sun; territory; thing; time; town; travel; trees; tribe; utan; vessel; view; village; visit; voyage; waist; war; water; way; white; wild; wind; women; wooden; work; yards; years cache: 27503.txt plain text: 27503.txt item: #3 of 7 id: 27556 author: Reid, Thomas H. title: Across the Equator: A Holiday Trip in Java date: None words: 20616 flesch: 63 summary: Goitre is usually associated with people living in mountainous regions, yet we never noticed it in the Preanger and scarcely at all on the mountains of East Java. The Health Resort of East Java. keywords: a.m.; accommodation; administration; air; ample; ancient; ashes; attention; baggage; batavia; beautiful; best; better; blue; book; boro; bright; british; bromo; buddha; budur; buitenzorg; carriage; case; central; change; character; chinese; cloth; collection; colonial; colonies; colony; colour; comfortable; company; conditions; conversation; countries; country; course; crater; cultivation; daendels; day; days; deep; description; djocjakarta; dutch; early; east; east java; eastern; end; english; enormous; equator; european; experience; facilities; fact; famous; far; feet; fields; fine; flowers; following; foot; foreign; form; fortnight; garden; general; good; government; governor; great; groneman; ground; guide; guilders; half; hall; hand; head; health; heavy; help; highest; hill; hindu; history; holland; hotel; hours; houses; idea; illustration; india; indies; interesting; island; janssens; japan; java; javanese; journey; king; kreta; lake; landing; landscape; large; left; life; light; like; line; little; long; lotus; malay; man; matter; miles; miss; moentilan; morning; mountain; native; nature; near; neighbourhood; new; o'clock; occasion; officers; old; open; opinion; ordinary; original; p.m.; parambanan; pass; past; path; people; place; plains; poentjak; ponies; pony; port; possible; principal; priok; quarter; raffles; railway; red; region; religious; residence; respect; rice; road; rooms; royal; ruins; run; samarang; scene; scenery; scidmore; sea; service; severe; sides; sindanglaya; singapore; sir; small; sourabaya; specimens; spirit; square; stamford; stay; stone; sultan; summit; sun; tandjong; temples; teng'ger; time; tjiandjoer; tosari; tourist; town; train; travel; traveller; trees; trip; troops; tropical; târâ; valley; vegetation; view; visitor; volcano; water; way; west; white; women; wonderful; work; world; years; young cache: 27556.txt plain text: 27556.txt item: #4 of 7 id: 27749 author: Keyser, Arthur Louis title: From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India date: None words: 28625 flesch: 65 summary: Mr. X., whose impressions and mild adventures I have undertaken the task of editing, has asked me to narrow his personal introduction to such limits as is consistent with the courtesy due to my readers, if haply I find any. Here in Singapore X. need envy no one, for was he not to go out after dinner and hear a band in the moonlight, and a band played by Europeans? keywords: absence; abu; accustomed; afternoon; agreeable; appearance; arrival; assistant; attention; batavia; baths; beautiful; best; better; book; building; buitenzorg; carriage; certain; change; chapter; cheque; chief; chinese; class; climate; close; clothes; club; coffee; cold; community; companion; company; continued; conversation; cottage; country; course; dark; day; days; departure; dining; dinner; distance; drive; dutch; early; east; english; englishman; estate; european; evening; excellent; experience; eye; eyes; fact; fair; feet; fever; following; food; forth; friend; gardens; garvet; general; gentleman; globe; good; government; governor; great; green; guests; half; head; high; hills; home; host; hotel; hour; house; impression; india; individual; information; informed; interest; island; java; javanese; journey; jungle; kind; kindly; known; ladies; lady; land; large; leave; left; length; life; like; little; live; local; lomboh; long; look; looking; luggage; lunch; malay; man; manner; matter; meal; miles; mind; money; moonlight; morning; mother; mountain; native; nature; necessary; need; new; night; occasion; office; official; open; outside; padi; party; pass; passengers; past; path; pay; peninsula; people; person; place; pleasant; ponies; poor; position; possible; post; present; proprietor; pura; quest; question; race; railway; ready; real; record; resident; return; rice; river; road; room; round; route; sarong; scene; service; short; singapore; situation; small; start; states; station; stay; stranger; sun; table; tea; terrible; thing; thought; time; tjilatjap; town; train; traveller; trees; troops; usoof; usual; verandah; view; village; visit; visitor; walk; war; water; way; welcome; white; wodena; words; world; worthy; years; young cache: 27749.txt plain text: 27749.txt item: #5 of 7 id: 34725 author: Couperus, Louis title: The Hidden Force: A Story of Modern Java date: None words: 80384 flesch: 78 summary: All our lives we make believe, pretending, imagining all sorts of things, thinking that we are giving a path or a direction to our poor, aimless little lives. He walked down a lane, past dark little houses, each in its own little demesne, turned off again and walked along the mouth of the river, which was like a canal. keywords: accustomed; addie; affection; afraid; afternoon; aim; aju; ambition; angry; arms; artistic; assistant; authority; away; babu; bad; ball; bamboo; batavia; bath; bathroom; beautiful; beauty; bedroom; believe; best; betel; better; big; black; blood; blue; body; bottles; bowed; boy; boys; brother; brown; bruijn; business; busy; care; carriage; caste; certain; chairs; chapter; character; charming; cheerful; chief; children; chinese; circle; civilization; closed; clouds; club; coffee; compound; controller; conversation; cook; cool; council; country; couple; course; cry; daily; danger; dark; darkness; daughter; day; days; dear; death; deep; delightful; different; dinner; dismissal; distance; distinguished; district; doctor; doddie; domestic; door; dream; dress; drink; drive; dull; dutch; early; eastern; eldersma; european; eva; evening; excellency; existence; expression; eyes; face; factory; fair; faithful; fall; family; fancy; far; fate; father; fear; feeling; feet; figure; fine; fingers; firm; floor; flowers; fond; foot; force; french; friends; friendship; frightened; future; gallery; garden; gate; gaze; general; gentle; girl; glad; glance; glass; gloomy; god; gold; golden; good; government; great; green; grey; grounds; guilders; hadji; hair; haired; half; hand; handed; happenings; happy; hard; harmony; hated; head; heart; heavy; helderen; help; hidden; high; hold; holland; home; hour; house; human; husband; ida; ideas; ill; illusions; india; indifference; influence; interest; javanese; jealousy; jovial; kabaai; kind; kissed; knowing; labuwangi; ladies; lamp; large; late; laugh; lay; leave; left; leg; letters; life; like; lips; listening; little; living; long; longer; longing; look; looking; love; luce; lunch; mad; maid; making; malay; mamma; man; marble; married; matter; mean; melancholy; mem; messenger; mevrouw; middle; mind; moment; money; month; mood; morning; morrow; mother; moustache; mrs; music; mysterious; mystery; native; nature; neck; need; nervous; new; ngadjiwa; night; noble; nonsense; office; official; old; onie; onie van; oorip; open; order; otto; outside; pale; pangã; papa; paraffin; paris; passion; past; path; patjaram; people; pillars; place; play; playing; pleasant; pleased; police; poor; population; position; possible; pots; power; practical; present; pretty; princess; proud; quiet; race; raden; rain; rantzow; real; reason; reception; regent; renã; residency; resident; respect; rest; rice; rich; road; rocking; room; rose; rosy; round; running; sacred; sahib; saina; sake; sarong; sea; second; secret; secretary; self; sense; servants; set; shadow; shoulders; silence; silent; silk; simple; single; sky; sleep; small; smile; smiling; social; society; soft; solo; sombre; son; sons; sort; soul; spacious; spat; spirit; squatting; stand; station; staying; step; stone; strange; strength; sudden; suffering; sugar; sunario; surabaya; surprise; table; tall; tea; tempter; terrible; theo; thick; things; thinking; thought; threatening; time; tired; town; trees; trembling; true; turning; type; unable; usual; vague; van; van helderen; van oudijck; velvet; verandah; visible; vision; visit; voice; waiting; walking; water; white; wide; wife; wild; wind; woman; word; work; working; years; yellow; young; younger cache: 34725.txt plain text: 34725.txt item: #6 of 7 id: 58175 author: Knox, Thomas Wallace title: The Boy Travellers in the Far East, Part Second Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Siam and Java; With Descriptions of Cochin-China, Cambodia, Sumatra and the Malay Archipelago date: None words: 127291 flesch: 74 summary: [Illustration: MEDIÆVAL TARTAR HUTS AND WAGONS.] [Illustration: FLYING-FISH.] Porpoises and flying-fish appeared occasionally, and their lively leaps from the water were a source of much amusement to the youths. keywords: able; abundance; account; advantage; afternoon; air; alligator; america; anam; anchor; ancient; animals; answer; appearance; archipelago; arms; army; arrangement; arrival; articles; asia; attendants; attention; ayuthia; bamboo; band; bangkok; bank; basket; batavia; bath; bear; beasts; bed; best; better; bird; black; board; boat; body; book; box; boys; breakfast; bronson; buddha; building; buitenzorg; business; cambodia; canal; canton; capital; captain; capture; care; careful; carriage; case; centre; century; ceremony; certain; chang; chapter; character; charge; chief; children; china; chinese; city; class; clear; close; cloth; coast; cochin; cocoa; coffee; color; comes; common; companions; company; condition; considerable; construction; consul; conversation; corral; countries; country; couple; course; court; covered; crew; crocodile; curious; custom; cut; dark; day; days; deal; death; deck; deep; description; determined; devoted; different; difficult; dinner; direction; distance; doctor; doctor bronson; dollars; door; dozen; dress; dressed; drive; dry; dutch; duty; early; earth; east; eastern; easy; elephant; england; english; enormous; equal; equator; european; evening; excellent; expense; extent; eyes; fact; fall; familiar; family; famous; far; farther; fear; feet; field; find; fine; finest; finished; fire; fish; fishing; following; fond; food; foot; foreign; foreigners; forest; form; forward; frank; fred; free; french; friends; fruit; garden; gate; general; gentleman; gold; good; government; governor; grass; great; great deal; greater; green; ground; group; gulf; gun; hair; half; hall; hands; harbor; hard; head; heat; heavy; high; history; hold; home; hong; horses; hotel; hours; house; hunting; huts; idea; idol; illustrated; illustration; important; inches; india; information; inhabitants; inside; instances; interested; interesting; interior; interpreter; island; japan; java; javanese; journey; junk; khan; kind; king; kong; labor; ladies; lake; language; large; largest; laws; leaf; leaves; left; length; letters; life; light; like; likely; line; little; lives; living; long; long time; look; lower; mail; majesty; malay; man; manner; map; marco; market; matter; means; men; menam; merchants; middle; miles; millions; minutes; missionaries; moment; money; monkeys; monsoon; morning; motion; mountain; mouth; movements; music; nagkon; native; nature; near; necessary; neck; nest; new; north; note; number; numerous; o'clock; ocean; officers; official; old; ones; open; opportunity; orang; order; ordinary; oriental; outside; oyster; pacific; palm; panompin; paradise; particular; parts; passengers; past; pay; pearl; people; perfect; persons; picture; piece; pipe; pirates; place; plants; platform; plenty; point; polo; population; port; portuguese; position; possession; possible; pounds; prepared; presence; present; pretty; priests; prince; principal; private; process; procession; proper; province; public; purpose; quarter; queen; question; railway; rain; reach; ready; reason; regent; regions; regular; religion; remarkable; reply; required; result; return; revenue; rice; rich; ride; river; road; room; royal; ruins; sago; saigon; sail; sailors; saw; scene; sea; second; seeing; servant; service; set; shape; shell; ship; shore; shot; siam; siamese; silver; similar; singapore; single; size; slaves; sleeping; small; smaller; snake; soldiers; sort; spot; square; stables; standing; state; station; stay; steamer; stone; stop; stories; story; strangers; stream; street; strong; study; style; subject; sufficient; sugar; sumatra; sun; supply; sure; surface; system; tail; taking; talk; taste; tell; temple; thick; things; thought; throne; tiger; time; tobacco; trade; travellers; travels; trees; tropical; tropics; trouble; trunk; turtle; unable; united; varieties; variety; veranda; view; village; visit; voyage; walk; walls; want; war; water; way; weather; west; white; wide; wife; wild; wind; wish; women; wonderful; work; world; writing; yards; years; york; young; youths cache: 58175.txt plain text: 58175.txt item: #7 of 7 id: 60751 author: Perelaer, M. T. H. (Michael Theophile Hubert) title: Baboe Dalima; or, The Opium Fiend date: None words: 224996 flesch: 77 summary: Said van Nerekool: I must go and have a look at my gun, and I should think it would be well to take a couple of revolvers. Such then was the mother of Anna van Gulpendam, as she suddenly stalked into the pandoppo and at the sight of Dalima straightway fired up and cried out: So! has that slut come in again? Now then, she continued in her wrath, tell me, you young monkey, where have you been? keywords: able; absence; abuse; account; accusation; advantage; advice; affection; afternoon; ajo; amokh; animals; anjer; anna; anna van; answer; anxiety; anxious; appearance; ardjan; arms; assistant; atjeh; attempt; attention; auctioneer; audience; august; august van; authorities; authority; aware; away; awhile; aye; babah; baboe; bad; baleh; ball; bamboo; bandoelan; banjoe; bare; batavia; beaters; beautiful; bed; beginning; bent; best; bid; bie; big; bing; bit; bitter; black; blood; blow; blue; board; boat; bodies; body; book; bore; bosom; bow; box; boys; branches; break; breast; breath; breeze; bride; broken; brown; bushes; business; busy; but--; cabin; calm; capacity; capital; captain; cards; care; career; carriage; case; cast; catch; cave; ceremony; certain; chance; chapter; character; charge; charles; charles van; chief; child; children; chinaman; chinese; cigar; circumstances; clear; clerk; close; coffee; colonial; colour; coloured; command; common; companion; company; concerned; condition; conduct; confusion; conscience; consent; consequence; considerable; continued; contract; contrary; controller; conversation; cool; corner; cost; council; counsel; countenance; country; couple; course; court; creatures; cross; crowd; cry; cup; curiosity; curious; cut; daily; dalima; danger; dark; darkness; darling; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; dear; dearest; death; deep; deepest; defence; delightful; description; despair; dessa; determined; different; difficult; direction; dirty; discovered; disgusting; distance; district; djaga; djaksa; djoekoeng; djoerang; doctor; dog; doubt; draw; dreadful; dream; dress; drink; drive; drug; dutch; duties; duty; early; earth; easy; edward; edward van; effect; effort; enjoy; entire; entrance; escape; european; evening; events; evidence; evident; evil; excellent; excitement; excuse; exertion; exhausted; expected; experience; experiment; expression; extent; extreme; eyes; face; fact; factory; faint; fair; faithful; fall; fallen; false; family; fancied; fancy; far; farmer; fast; fatal; father; fault; favour; fear; fearful; features; feelings; feet; fellow; fields; filthy; fine; fingers; fire; fit; floor; flowers; flying; following; food; foot; force; form; formal; frame; free; fresh; friend van; friendly; friends; frightened; fury; future; gain; gallery; game; garden; general; gentlemen; gesina; gesture; girl; glad; glance; glass; glasses; glorious; god; gold; gombong; good; government; governor; grashuis; great; greater; greatest; green; grenits; grounds; group; guard; guests; guilders; guilty; hair; half; hand; handed; handsome; happiness; happy; hard; haste; head; health; heart; heaven; heavy; help; hide; hideous; high; higher; hok; hold; holland; home; honest; honour; hope; horizon; horror; horses; host; hot; hour; house; huge; human; hunters; hunting; hurried; hurry; husband; hush; hut; idea; impatience; important; india; infamous; influence; information; informed; inhabitants; inner; innocent; inquiry; inspector; instant; intention; interest; interesting; interior; interrupted; interview; island; javanese; journey; jove; joy; judge; judicial; justice; kaligaweh; kandjeng; karang; khan; kiem; kind; king; kiss; known; kris; kã¢rijã¢h; ladder; ladies; lady; lamp; language; large; late; laugh; laughing; laurentia; law; lawyer; lead; leave; leendert; left; legs; length; let; letter; liem; lies; life; like; likely; lim ho; line; lips; little; loerah; lonely; long; longer; look; looking; loud; love; lucky; m`bok; madam; magnificent; maiden; major; making; man; manner; mass; matilda; matter; meaning; means; medical; meet; meidema; members; men; mention; mercy; mere; midst; mighty; millions; mind; minutes; miserable; misery; miss; mistake; mistress; moeara; mokesuep; moment; money; monjet; monopoly; months; morning; morrow; mother; mountain; mouth; mrs; murder; murowski; music; names; nana; narrow; nation; national; native; natural; nature; near; necessary; neck; need; nests; news; njonja; noble; noise; nonna; notes; notice; number; o'clock; object; occasion; ocean; offence; offer; office; officers; official; old; open; opening; opinion; opium; opium farmer; oppassers; opportunity; order; ordinary; outrage; outside; outward; pahit; pain; painful; pair; pak; pale; pandoppo; paper; parcel; pardon; parents; particular; party; passing; passion; past; path; patient; pay; peculiar; people; perfect; person; picture; piece; pills; ping; pipe; pity; place; play; pleasant; pleasure; point; pointed; poison; pole; police; policemen; poor; poor van; population; position; possession; possible; power; precious; prepared; presence; present; pretty; pringapoes; prisoner; promise; proper; prosecution; prospect; protect; public; pure; purpose; quantity; quarters; question; quick; quiet; race; radhen; rage; ravine; reach; ready; real; reason; reflection; refuse; regent; reply; report; request; residence; resident; resident van; resistance; respect; rest; result; return; revenue; rice; rich; rifle; right; road; rock; roof; room; ropes; rose; rough; round; rule; run; sad; safe; sake; sale; samples; santjoemeh; satisfaction; saw; saying; scene; sea; search; seat; second; secretary; self; sense; sentence; servant; service; setrosmito; settled; severe; sharp; ship; short; shoulders; shrubs; sides; sigh; sign; silence; silk; silver; simple; single; singomengolo; siong; sir; sitting; skin; sleep; slightest; slope; small; smile; smoke; smoking; smuggled; smugglers; smuggling; society; soft; soil; son; soul; sounds; source; space; speaking; speech; speed; spirits; spite; splendid; spot; spy; stand; standing; start; state; stately; stay; steenvlak; steps; stop; story; straight; strange; stream; strength; strong; stuff; subject; success; sudden; sufficient; sum; sun; superior; supply; support; sure; surprise; suspicion; swallow; sympathy; system; tale; talk; tea; teeth; telegram; telling; terrible; terror; testimony; theodoor; things; think; thinking; thomasz; thought; time; tjatjing; toean; tone; tongue; torture; touch; trade; treatment; trees; trembling; trial; tropical; trouble; true; trust; truth; turn; turning; unfortunate; unhappy; upper; usher; usual; utmost; uttered; vain; value; van; van beneden; van gulpendam; van nerekool; van rheijn; verandah; verstork; victims; view; violence; visit; visitors; voice; wait; walk; walking; wall; want; wariengien; water; wave; weapon; weather; wedding; wedono; week; white; wide; wife; wild; william; wind; wish; witness; witnesses; woman; wood; words; work; world; worse; wretched; wrong; yang; years; yesterday; yonder; young; young girl; young man; zuidhoorn cache: 60751.txt plain text: 60751.txt