crockery, &c. Behind these, on the rising ground, are the Government coffee godowns, kept in the true Dutch style of order ; and a little farther off is the villa of the Contrôleur, designed after a European model. A range of buildings, the property of a coffee planter, Mr. P, is erected near the Contrôleur's residence. To the right of the temporary bazaar is the Wodono's house, from which place all our food was sent, cooked, in a jodang.
No bath-room being attached to the house, as is generally the case, I was conducted, by one of the men, to a small bath-house outside the village. Our way lying through hedges of coffee-trees, some of which were six and seven feet high, an altitude I never saw them reach before. Here and there I observed the Dadup plant, which yields a bright red flower. We passed several women and children carrying water in urns, which they generally supported on their hips, with the right arm round
