Worsfold wrote for English and Australian travellers who knew little of Java. He gives its history under the Dutch and the British interlude, hotels and railways, Batavia, the Hindu temples, the famous botanical gardens at Buitenzorg, a stay on a coffee plantation, the Culture System of forced cultivation, wildlife and horse-racing, along with an account of Raffles and the founding of Singapore.
A thorough Victorian portrait of colonial Java, written from the standpoint of its time. Download the free EPUB.