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AJAITTIOCGHJATA. 
 
 The Story of a Journey to the Sacred Mountain 
 by Two American Boys. 
 
 By EDWARD S. ELLIS, 
 
 Authtrtlf 
 "Adrift in tbe Wildt." "A YooiwHero," " Lor CaUn Series," etc, eta 
 
 ILLUSTRATED. 
 
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 PUBLISHERS, NEW TOBK. 
 
Copyright, 1888. Bt"A. I* BUKP 
 
 A JAUNT THROUGH JAVA. 
 B7 Edwabd S. Elus. 
 
A JAUNT THROUGH JAVA. 
 
 CHAPTER L 
 
 TWO TOUNG TEAVBLEEB, 
 
 HURRAH for Java !" shouted Hermon Hadley^ 
 flinging his cap in air, and uttering a shout 
 that might have been heard a half mile, except for 
 the parlor walls which shut in the sound. 
 
 " I'm with you !" added his cousin Eustace, hurl- 
 ing his hat atgainst the ceding and executing a sort 
 of double-shuffle on the carpet, while the mothers of 
 the lads tried to look stern and severe, but were un- 
 able to keep back their smiles. 
 
 " "We should be thankful for their rugged health 
 and strength and high spirits," remarked the mother 
 of Hermon, " for if those ringing voices were hushed 
 in death how we would miss them, sister !" 
 
 Tears filled the eyes of both, which quickly gave 
 way to laughter at the antics of the youngsters, 
 who disported themselves like a pair of monkeys. 
 Eustace dropped upon the stool in front of the 
 piano and rattled off a jig, while Hermon executed 
 
6 A JA UNT THBO UGE JA VA. 
 
 it with commendable vigor, even if he did not keep 
 the best of time. After a while the boys were able 
 to sit down and calmly discuss the important busi- 
 ness with their mothers, who were sisters, while 
 their fathers were brothers. 
 
 Hulbert Hadley lived in the tropical island of Java, 
 while his brother Isaac was a merchant in St. Louis, 
 the latter being the father of Hermon and the 
 former the parent of Eustace. "When the Javanese 
 Hadley, as he may be called, brought his wife and 
 son from the other side of the world, they made a 
 visit of several months to their relatives in America. 
 During this visit the arrangement was made that 
 Hermon should join his cousin in attending school 
 in England. 
 
 This was well enough ; but when Eustace and his 
 parents urged that before carrying out this excellent 
 plan the American youth should make them a visit 
 in Java, the St. Louis merchant was not prepared to 
 give assent. It seemed to him that the time would 
 be wasted, and now, while his son was growing so 
 rapidly, he ought to devote his energies to acquiring 
 an education. 
 
 But -fche boys, as might have been expected, hung 
 on, aaid by and by won their mothers to their side. 
 The father of Eustace had favored the plan from 
 the first. It came about, therefore, that when Mr. 
 Isaac Hadley found that both households were 
 arrayed against him he exclaimed : 
 
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 " "Well, 1 suppose it's no use 1 Tes ; you can go 
 to Java !" 
 
 It was this announcement, made at Mr. Hadley's 
 store in the presence of his brother, that sent the 
 youngsters flying home like a couple of Comanche 
 Indians. 
 
 It isn't worth while to dwell on the particulars of 
 the preparations made by the boys. The father of 
 Hermon was obliged to stay in St. Louis to look after 
 business matters, while his wife and son accompa- 
 nied the other family on the long journey to the 
 distant country about which I hope to tell you some- 
 thing that wiU prove interesting and instructive. 
 
 Eustace, having made the voyage to America by 
 way of London, was able to give his cousin much in- 
 formation respecting the wonderful sights and scenes 
 which met them on every hand. Hermon had made 
 several visits to the metropolis of his country, where 
 he spent nearly a week visiting the places and ob- 
 jects of interest. Finally, on a mild, sunshiny Sat- 
 urday, they bade good-by to America and embarked 
 on one of the magnificent Cunarders for their dis- 
 tant destination. 
 
 Three state-rooms had been engaged by the 
 party — one for the parents of Eustace, another for 
 the mother of Hermon, whUe the boys roomed to- 
 gether. The steamer moved swiftly down New 
 York harbor, and off Sandy Hook a brief stop was 
 made to aUow the pilot to leave. Finally the I^ave-' 
 
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 sink Highlands sank out of sight below the horizon, 
 affording the last glimpse of Hermon's native land. 
 
 Our friends were disappointed in their expecta- 
 tions of a pleasant voyage across the Atlantic, for 
 the weather became blustery, and such a high sea 
 was running that every one of the company except 
 Mr. Hadley became very seasick. The lads, how- 
 ever, quickly recovered, and although they were 
 quite pale and felt weak in the legs, they soon made 
 their appearance on deck, where they were chaffed 
 by Mr. Headley for being such poor sailors. 
 
 There were many games, several concerts, sing- 
 ing, story-telling, and the various amusements with 
 which several hundred people pass away the hours 
 on shipboard. The boys found much entertainment 
 in standing on deck and watching the vessels, 
 some of which were nearly always in sight, and 
 speculating on their destination, their past and 
 their future history and fate. Once considerable 
 excitement was caused by the sight of a mountain- 
 ous iceberg floating slowly southward. There was 
 talk of a collision with the enormous mass of ice ; 
 but the expression of confidence on the faces of the 
 officers and crew dissipated what fear any one 
 might have felt, and the distance between the 
 steamer and ice-mountain was never less than three 
 or four miles. 
 
 On the ninth day from New York our friends 
 landed in Liverpool. There was so much ahead of 
 
A J A UNT THRO UOH J A VA. 9 
 
 them, and they were so anxious to reach their far- 
 away destination, that they left the great city, with 
 its famous docks, the next day, taking the London 
 and Northwestern Eailway to London. 
 
 Here they were in the most populous city on the 
 globe, and fully a week — altogether insufficient — 
 was devoted to sight-seeing. The yellow, sticky 
 fog, for which that mighty city is so famous, was 
 over everything, and rendered it impossible to 
 see more than a few feet in any direction; but 
 when the weather had cleared somewhat they vis- 
 ited Cheapside, Fleet Street, Ludgate Hill, Pall Mall 
 and Piccadilly, which are among the principal 
 thoroughfares. Then followed an inspection of St. 
 Paul's Cathedral, the Tower of London, Westminster 
 Abbey, the Houses of Parliament, the Bank of Eng- 
 land, known as the Old Lady of Threadneedle 
 Street, and other interesting places. 
 
 " We could spend a month here," said Hermon, 
 " and use every hour, day and night, in seeing the 
 sights." 
 
 " Yes," replied Mr. Hadley, " and leave many 
 interesting places unvisited. In fact, every country 
 is like an immense volume of treasures which you 
 can examine and study, and then begin again and 
 find you have missed some of the most wonderful of 
 them aU." 
 
 Had we the space, the full account of the journey 
 of our friends to Java, which was still thousands pf 
 
10 A JA UNT THRO UGH JA VA. 
 
 miles off, would be entertaining and instructive. 
 From London they went by way of Dover and 
 Calais to Paris. The little packet-ship was so tossed 
 about on the channel that all, including Mr. Hadley, 
 had two hours of dreadful seasickness. The land- 
 ing was at Calais, whence they traveled two hun- 
 dred miles by rail to the beautiful and in some re- 
 spects most famous city in the world. 
 
 It would never have done to pass through Paris 
 without a hurried inspection of some of its most 
 striking features. The gay boulevards, where, 
 especially at evening, the whole city seemed to be 
 on parade ; the Gardens of the Tuileries ; the Place 
 de la Concorde, the most magnificent public square 
 in the city ; the Egyptian obelisk of Luxor, where 
 over a thousand persons, including many royal per- 
 sonages, were beheaded nearly a hundred years ago ; 
 the Arc de Triomphe, the largest triumphal arch in 
 the world, with the streets radiating from it like the 
 spokes from the hub of a wheel ; then, crossing the 
 Seine by the Pont Notre Dame, the oldest bridge in 
 Paris, to the island of La Cite, where a Gallic tribe 
 built a hamlet before the birth of Christ, and where 
 stands the noble Gothic Cathedral of Notre Dame, 
 more than seven hundred years old, with its huge 
 equestrian statue of Charlemagne ; to the south side 
 of the Seine in the Latin Quarter, where most of the 
 institutions connected with the University of France 
 are situated; among the Catacombs, with their 
 
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 ghastly remains of the myriads who have died and 
 been forgotten ; in the Jardin des Plantes, with its 
 interesting animals ; the Hotel des Invalides, with 
 its golden dome and the tomb of Emperor Napoleon, 
 and the almost numberless plaoes famous in history ; 
 these were visited by the ardent travelers, despite 
 their eagerness to push on to Java. 
 
 The time came, however, all too soon, as it seemed, 
 for their departure from France. They left Paris 
 for Cologne by rail, arriving in the German city on 
 the Ehine twelve hours later. The distance is about 
 three hundred miles, and took the travelers across 
 Northern France, Belgium, and a portion of the Ger- 
 man Empire. 
 
 The great attraction of Cologne is its Cathedral, 
 whose foundation-stones were laid more than six 
 hundred years ago, while the cap- stone was not put 
 in place until 1880. Its towers are upward of five 
 hundred feet high, affording a view of hundreds of 
 miles, and making them the loftiest spires in the 
 world excepting our own Washington Monument 
 and the great tower now in course of erection in 
 Paris, which is destined to be a thousand feet in 
 height. 
 
 They left Cologne by steamer, down the pictur- 
 esque Rhine, which recalls so vividly our own Hud- 
 son. At Mayence the boat was abandoned. A 
 day's travel by rail brought them to Zurich, and 
 thence to Geneva. Several days were spent in this 
 
12 A JA UNT THRO UQEC J A FA. 
 
 interesting city near the Alps, whence the little 
 party journeyed through the Mont Cenis Tunnel, 
 one of the most amazing feats of engineering the 
 world has ever known. 
 
 Two parties bagan work nearly eight miles apart, 
 and thirteen years later (1870) met in the middle of 
 the mountain. Had the engineers made only a 
 slight miscalculation, these parties would have passed 
 each other and completed two tunnels — that is, if 
 the money and patience had held out. 
 
 It took ten hours to cross the kingdom of Italy 
 from Turin to the Adriatic. A few days were 
 delightfully spent in Venice, the next stop being at 
 Vienna. Thence they passed by steamer down the 
 Danube to BudarPesth, and another day's voyage 
 through the " Iron Gates " brought them in sight of 
 the fortifications of Belgrade. 
 
 "We must not dwell too long, however, on the pre 
 liminary journey, as it may be called, of our young 
 friends, though continually tempted to refer to the 
 strange and interesting scenes they witnessed. 
 Through Turkey by rail, three days on the Black 
 Sea, thence by rail and steamer again, until at last 
 they disembarked at Cairo, in Egypt. 
 
 Here at last they found themselves in the land of 
 the Pharaohs, a country so rich with historical asso- 
 ciations that no one of the company was willing to 
 push on without tarrying long enough to look upon 
 some of the wonderful curiosities, which it may be 
 said were on evei;^ h%ed. 
 
A JA UNT THRO UOE J A VA. 13 
 
 Not the least interesting was the mummy that 
 had been disinterred but a short time before. It 
 was that of the great Egyptian conqueror, Sesostris, 
 who ruled Egypt more than a thousand years before 
 the birth of our Saviour. It was preserved with 
 startling perfection. The crown was bald, but there 
 was a fringe of gray hair along the back and sides 
 of the head, stained yellow from the spices of the 
 embalmers, while the eyeless sockets seemed to stare 
 in the faces of those who had come, thirty centuries 
 after, to gaze upon the remains of one of the 
 mightiest monarchs that ever reigned. 
 
 The first noteworthy visit was to the Pyramids 
 and the Sphinx, a short distance from the city, on 
 the Nile. The excavations were then under way 
 about the Sphinx, and had progressed far enough to 
 disclose the remains of a splendid temple, undoubt- 
 edly the oldest in the world. For unknown cent- 
 uries the Sphinx has been buried to the neck in the 
 sands of the desert. It is one hundred and forty 
 feet long, and is hewn from the hardest rock. As 
 yet no one has been able to solve the mystery of its 
 existence. 
 
 Through the Suez Canal, along the Red Sea, 
 across the Arabian Sea to Bombay, thence by rail 
 to Calcutta, where our friends took passage direct 
 down the Bay of Bengal to Java. When they en- 
 tered the vast Strait of Malacca, between that 
 peninsula and the Island of Sumatra, they crossed 
 
14 A JA UNT THRO UGH JA VA. 
 
 the boundary line between Asia and Polynesia, and 
 thenceforward lived for a time on that continent of 
 islands. 
 
 It was in the month of May that the little party 
 reached Samarang, where their long wanderings 
 were ended for the time. This was a favorable date 
 for their visit, since it was the beginning of the dry 
 season, which opens in April and lasts till October. 
 During that period the prevailing wind is the south- 
 east trade, and for the rest of the year it is the north- 
 west or west, which is the continuation of the regu- 
 lar north-east trade-wind. The rainy season, though 
 less defined in the eastern part of the island, is so 
 uncomfortable that the visitors were fortunate in 
 tuning their arrival so that the unaoclimated ones 
 avoided it. 
 
 Samarang, when first seen by Hermon Hadley 
 and his mother, contained about twenty-five thou- 
 sand inhabitants. It had a quaint and interesting 
 appearance to the Americans, whose stay in Batavia 
 was too brief to aUow them to go far into the in- 
 terior of the island. 
 
 The old European portion of the town is an al- 
 most exact copy of a Dutch city, the sturdy Hol- 
 landers who built it seeming to fancy the climate to 
 be precisely the same as that which prevails on the 
 banks of the Zuyder Zee. 
 
 The wall surrounding Samarang was taken down 
 jjiore than hpjf a century ago, and a fort and coast 
 
A JA TTNT TEEO UGE JA TA. 15 
 
 battery stand ready to protect the city agams« any 
 freebooters that may come stealing over the China 
 Sea or from among the labyrinthine Spice Islands. 
 
 " I'm glad we are here at last !" exclaimed Iler- 
 mon with a sigh of relief, " and thankful that not 
 one of us has had a day of sickness." 
 
 " How about the third day out from New York !" 
 asked his uncle with a smile; "you seemed to be 
 somewhat under the weather then." 
 
 " You learned how it was yourself in crossing 
 from London to Calais," laughed the youth ; " but 
 seasickness don't count, you know." 
 
 "When you were moaning in your state-room 
 you were sure you were never so ill in all your life, 
 and said you thought it would be a comfort to die. 
 However, you are right ; we have a gi'eat deal to be 
 grateful for, for it is seldom that a party of five can 
 travel so many thousand miles without meeting 
 with accident, as well as suffering dangerous illness." 
 
 " And we have been in some of the unhealthiest 
 regions in the world !" added Eustace. 
 
 " Where are they ?" 
 
 " I beheve that it is agreed that the delta of the 
 Nile is the breeding-ground of cholera and other 
 abominations that have swept off thousands of peo- 
 ple. Undoubtedly it was there that the pestilence 
 had its birth." 
 
 " India is about as bad," remarked the mother of 
 Eustace, " for it is the home of plague and famine. 
 
16 A JA UNT mm ma u va. 
 
 li it was our fate to spend the hot season there, I 
 am sure we would not survive." 
 
 " You know we have some pretty warm weather 
 in our country," said Hermon. " Father once made 
 a journey through Southern Arizona in a stage- 
 coach, and he said the thermometer stood at one 
 hundred and twelve degrees, day after day, in the 
 shade." 
 
 " A man can't stand much more than that and 
 live," was the comment of Mr. Hadley ; " Isaac told 
 me aboui. it," and if I hadn't known him to be a 
 truthful man I would have discredited the state- 
 ment." 
 
 " It would seem, uncle, that since Java is a trop- 
 ical island, you are liable to the same kind of weather 
 here." 
 
 " Of course it is hot at times, but the ocean is on 
 every side, and the wind is always blowing in one 
 direction or another. Besides, although Java is a 
 pretty fair-sized island, it is comparatively narrow, 
 so that it has many advantages which more temper- 
 ate regions lack." 
 
 "Then, I suppose, the Dutch have owned the 
 island so long, and so many of them have lived here, 
 that they have imparted some of the characteristics 
 of their own country to it ?" 
 
 " Unquestionably they have ; but it won't do to 
 claim that that fact can have produced any effect on 
 the oUmate /" 
 
A J A UNT TEBO UGH J A YA. \ 7 
 
 "I did not mean to say that; but it seems as 
 thougti a person can become accustomed to almost 
 anything. You don't think there is any particular 
 danger in Eustace and me taking a jaunt through 
 Java, do you ?" 
 
 The mothers of the boys looked anxiously at Mr. 
 Hadley for his reply. 
 
 " Eustace has a practical knowledge of the coun- 
 try ; and if you go across the middle of the island, 
 instead of taking it lengthwise, and are properly 
 equipped, with an experienced guide or attendant, 
 there is no more danger, as I view it, than in taking 
 a ride in a railway train." 
 
 "Then we have your consent, father?" asked 
 Eustace. 
 
 " Oh, I suppose so !" he laughed ; " for I shall 
 have no peace until it is granted, and your mothers 
 won't have any until you are safe back again 1" 
 
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 CHAPTER II. 
 
 HO, FOK THE SA. itED MOUNTAIN ! 
 
 ME. HADLEY insisted that before the boys 
 ventured on their jaunt across the Island of 
 Java they should spend several days at home, in or- 
 der, as he expressed it, that Hermon should become 
 acclimated to the new country. The gentleman, 
 having been absent so long from home, found many 
 things demanding his attention in which the youths 
 could give him great assistance. His correspond- 
 ence had accumulated to such an extent that he 
 would have been appaUed but for the nimble fingers, 
 bright intelligence and readiness of the lads in giv- 
 ing him all the help in their power. 
 
 "Pitch in, my lads!" said he' with a smile, "and 
 when we get things in shape you shall have your 
 vacation !" 
 
 " We don't want it, uncle," returned Hermon, " un- 
 til we have done everything we possibly can for 
 you. You have been very kind and indulgent to us, 
 and we shall always remember it." 
 
 " Those are my sentiments," added Eustace, who 
 was very devoted to both of his parents. " Her- 
 
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 mon and I had intended to volunteer our help before 
 you said anything about it." 
 
 The gentleman was pleased with the spirit of the 
 boys, which, however, was only what he expected 
 from them. The mothers were able also to lend 
 their assistance, for they were bright-witted and 
 well-educated, so that Mr. Hadley jestingly offered 
 both situations as his clerks. 
 
 The servants that had been left in charge of the 
 home during the long absence of the heads of the 
 household had been faithful ; and, indeed, matters 
 were found in a much better shape all around than 
 was anticipated by any member of the family. 
 
 Thus it came about that just one week after the 
 arrival of the little party in Samarang the two 
 cousins were tramping the rugged mountain chain 
 which extends through the middle of Java from one 
 end to the other. The sturdy, handsome youths 
 were clad in light but serviceable clothing, quite 
 similar to that which a pedestrian on this side of 
 the world would don when starting oh a lengthy 
 excursion through the country. Each carried a 
 revolver and a rifle of the most approved pattern, 
 with a good supply of cartridges, a light but strong 
 blanket, and they were accompanied by Tweak, a 
 mongrel canine belonging to Eustace, and of which 
 he was very fond. 
 
 The youths in their broad-brimmed hats and 
 jaunty suits made a pleasing and striking picture as 
 
20 4 JA UNT TUBO UGH JA VA. 
 
 they waved their friends good-by, promising .them 
 that, if nothing interfered, they would be back in 
 the course of a week or two. 
 
 Like all sensible persons who set out on a venture- 
 some journey they had a definite object before them. 
 They were on their way, as has been intimated, to 
 the Sacred Mountain, near the southern coast of the 
 island, in the province of Bagelen. In the neighbor 
 hood of this mountain are some of the most wonder- 
 ful ruins in the world. Eustace, who had traveled 
 over a great deal of Java, had long contemplated a 
 visit to them, but had deferred it in the hope that 
 his cousin might be his companion on the trip. 
 
 " When I first studied geography," said Hermon, 
 " and saw the pictures of islands, they always 
 seemed to me like httle spots of land that you could 
 see across. I remember that I had the same idea of 
 the oases in the Great Desert." 
 
 " My impression was similar," said Eustace ; " and 
 it was a long time before I realized that many of 
 the islands are vast tracts of country, with widely- 
 separated cities, containing long rivers, extensive 
 mountains, and thousands of square miles of terri- 
 tory." 
 
 " Now, as to Java," continued Hermon, who 
 naturally had studied a good deal about it, "if I 
 had been told that it is four times as large as Hol- 
 land, the country which owns it, it would have been 
 hard to believe it ; and yet it is true." 
 
A 3 A UNT TSm VGH JA VA. 21 
 
 '* You consider Massachusetts a pretty fair State 
 as regards size, but it would take half a dozen of 
 them to equal the area of Java. Did you ever 
 notice its resemblance, Hermon, to Cuba in. size and 
 form ?" 
 
 " Tes ; the similarity is striking, but Cuba isn't 
 one-half as interesting as Java, of which I have read 
 considerable, when I knew you lived here and I ex- 
 pected to make you a visit." 
 
 " It seems to me," said Eustace, thoughtfully, 
 "that the difference between the islands is the 
 difference between the people. The Spanish are 
 hot-blooded, passionate, revengeful, and ever since I 
 can remember there has been guerrilla fighting 
 going on in Cuba ; but, so far as I know, it is a long 
 time since there was any trouble in Java, though we 
 have eight times the population of Cuba." 
 
 " There is no country in the world where a person 
 is safer than here. Of course when we get up 
 among the mountains and wild regions we may 
 come upon evil people, just as you find them in the 
 United States, without going out in the woods to 
 look for them. You know what a peaceful, in- 
 dustrious people the Dutch are ; well, Java, with all 
 its half-savage natives, is becoming Dutch clear 
 through. The Europeans and Oriental immigrants 
 at present make up only a seventh of the popula- 
 tion, the rest being what we call the Javanese 
 proper, the Sundanese and the Madurese. I have 
 
n A JAJTNT TUnO VGB JA VA. 
 
 told you the distinctive features of those people and 
 won't attempt to get off a lecture now, but must 
 give full credit to the Dutch for the way in which 
 they rule this country. The emperors of Java, as 
 their ancient history calls them, used to have their 
 capital at Kartasura, now a deserted place, only a 
 few miles eastward of the spot where we are walk- 
 ing." 
 
 "When did the Dutch gain possession of the 
 island?" 
 
 " Nearly three hundred years ago the Dutch East 
 India Company started their trading-posts along the 
 coast, and some time after founded Batavia. There 
 was a good deal of fighting, but the Portuguese and. 
 English gave way to them, and in 1749 the Javan 
 ruler turned over the sovereignty of the island to 
 the Dutch. The British took the island in 1811, 
 but, five years after, it was given back to the 
 Dutch." 
 
 " I don't clearly understand the method by which 
 the country is governed, though I have studied it 
 considerably." 
 
 "It is quite simple: Java is divided into some 
 twenty-three counties, as you would call them, 
 though we know them by the name of districts. 
 Each district is governed by a Eegent or native 
 prince, and under him are more petty rulers down to 
 the village chiefs. "With each Regent is a Dutch 
 Resident or Ase'stant Resident, who is looked upon 
 
A J A UNT THRO UGU J A VA. 23 
 
 as the elder brother of the Regent. He makey 
 recommendations to the Eegent, but they are in 
 reality orders, for they are obeyed to the letter. 
 Then each Assistant Resident has a Controller, who 
 is a sort of inspector of all the native rulers, and 
 who at regular times visits every village in his dis- 
 trict, examines the proceedings of the native courts, 
 bears complaints, shapes up things generally, and 
 superintends the Government plantations." 
 
 "What are they?" 
 
 " The name tells you : the Grovernment took steps 
 to persuade the people, through their chiefs, to give 
 a part of their time to the cultivation of coffee, 
 sugar, and other products. A certain fixed rate, 
 quite low, of course, was given to the laborers clear- 
 ing the ground and making the plantations. The 
 products are sold to the Government at a small 
 price. From the profits a percentage goes to the 
 chiefs and the rest is divided among the workmen." 
 
 " How does the plan work ?" 
 
 "Admirably; the surplus is sometimes consider- 
 able, and the natives, instead of leading lazy, vaga- 
 bond lives and becoming dangerous to the rest, are 
 industrious, orderly, well fed and decently clothed. 
 Of course it is a good thing for the Government ; but 
 good as it is, it is much better for the people them- 
 selves." 
 
 " The soil must be excellent ?" 
 
 * ^otlUng could be finer, as the productions them- 
 
24 A JA UNT TSRO UOH JA VA. 
 
 selves show ; Java is the most fertile, the most pro- 
 ductive and the most populous tropical island in the 
 world. The vegetation grows almost to the very- 
 tops of the mountain peaks." 
 
 " Tou are not lacking in your volcano supply 1" 
 
 " No ; we can spare a few of them, if you would 
 like to make an exchange." 
 
 " How many volcanoes have you ?" 
 
 " The number is given at thirty-eight, and some 
 of them are more than two miles high." 
 
 "I think I would feel uneasy with such neigh- 
 bors." 
 
 " You would soon get used to it ; we never think 
 about them ; that faint cloud away off yonder in the 
 south-west is caused by a volcano. A few of them 
 are in constant activity, but regular lava streams 
 are unknown in Java. However, I have talked 
 until you are tired of hearing me, and after going a 
 little further we'U stop for a rest." 
 
 It should be stated that the width of Java at the 
 middle part, where our friends were journeying, is 
 about forty miles. At that time a railroad con- 
 nected their home (Samarang) with the towns of 
 Surakarta and Jokjokarta, the latter of which lies 
 near the southern coast ; but the boys disdained to 
 use the railroad — it would have been too much like 
 riding in a carriage and calling it a walk. 
 
 They moved considerably to the westward of the 
 places named and entered the mountainous district 
 
A JA UNT THRO UOH J A VA. 25 
 
 of Kadu, which adjoins the one containing the 
 Sacred Mountain and the ruins they had set out to 
 examine. They were some twelve or fifteen miles 
 north of the volcano of Sumbeng, which sent off the 
 thin vapor that was discerned in the sky long before 
 the volcano itself was visible. 
 
 The road was smooth and rough by turns, but 
 they found no diificulty in making their way over 
 it. It showed that it was old, and had been traveled 
 by carts and carriages for many years. Winding 
 and turning, it steadily ascended toward the mount- 
 ainous regions beyond ; and the temperature which 
 Hermon had found quite oppressive earlier in the 
 day became cool, salubrious and invigorating. He 
 was sure the excursion would prove one of the most 
 pleasant possible ; but, as is often the case, he little 
 dreamed of the extraordinary experiences which 
 even then were close at hand. 
 
36 ^J^ UNT THRO UGH JA VA. 
 
 CHAPTEK HL 
 
 THE HUT BY THE WAYSIDE. 
 
 TWEAK, the dog which the boys had brought 
 with them, was of mixed breed. He seemed 
 to combine some virtues and few of the vices of his 
 species. He was rather large, mainly black and 
 white, and appeared to look upon the excursion with 
 as much frolicsome anticipation as did the lads them- 
 selves. 
 
 While the cousins sauntered, along, chatting to- 
 gether and frequently stopping to admire the beauti- 
 ful landscape and scenery opening out before them, 
 Tweak was running ahead, dashing into the wood 
 and out again, or chasing some bird on the wing, as 
 though he expected to beat it in a fair race. Some- 
 times he would be gone for half an hour at a time, 
 and then, when his master would whistle for him, 
 he would gallop into sight far up the road and look 
 back upon them, as though impatient because they 
 were so slow. 
 
 Harmon Hadley often broke out with expressions 
 of admiration, for, although he had seen many 
 foreign countries, with much beautiful and strange 
 scenery, on his voyage from England, nothing 
 
A J A UNT THRO UGE JA VA. 27 
 
 charmed liim so much as the wonderfully exuberaut 
 vegetation of Java by which he was inclosed. Few 
 of the plants are deciduous, so that the whole island 
 is forever clothed in living green, and some of the 
 villages and smaller towns are so hidden from view 
 by the abundant verdure that they can hardly be 
 seen even for a short distance. 
 
 "When the youths started on their journey and for 
 a considerable while afterward, until they began 
 steadily ascending, they were in the zone of rice 
 fields and sugar plantations, of cocoa-nuts, cinnamon 
 and cotton. Many parts of the coast are fringed 
 with mangrove and palm trees, and Hermon noticed 
 numerous small ponds, covered with lotus flowers. 
 Earlier in the day he had caught glimpses of 
 prairies, covered with the silvery alang grass, 
 broken at intervals by bamboo and patches of the 
 taller eri grass. 
 
 These are the principal characteristics of the 
 tropical zone of Java, which extends generally to a 
 height of two thousand feet. 
 
 Still climbing upward, the youths found the 
 climate deliciously cool as they entered what is 
 called the second zone, and whose upper limit is 
 some four thousand five hundred feet. Within this 
 "egion lie most of the great coffee and tea planta- 
 "ions, and the sugar palm and maize also abound. 
 
 The road, which they followed at a leisurely gait, 
 wound through woods for most of the distance, 
 
28 A JA UNT TBRO UQH JA VA. 
 
 among which grew the Javanese teak, the sago, and 
 numberless varieties of palms. Now and then they 
 struck open stretches of country, sometimes many 
 acres in extent, and covered with grass and rocks, 
 and occasionally crossed by a small purling stream 
 of water. In pushing onward and upward they me]b 
 now and then persons, a few on horseback, but 
 mostly on foot. Harmon had already learned to 
 distinguish the pure Javanese natives from the Sun- 
 danese'by their darker skin, shorter stature and 
 stouter figure. 
 
 When the young American saw in Samarang 
 some natives from the eastern end of the island 
 who were not only as stout but as tall as the Java- 
 nese, he was told they were Madurese. He noticed 
 also that most of the Sundanese had their eyes set 
 obliquely in their heads, while those of the others 
 were straight. 
 
 All these people belong to the Malay race, with 
 brown or black eyes, long, coarse black hair, and very 
 few have scarcely more than the semblance of a beard. 
 The color of the skin presents various shades of yel- 
 lowish brown with a touch of olive green. A golden 
 yellow complexion, in the eyes of the Javanese, is 
 the perfection of female beauty. 
 
 Eustace and Hermon were advancing at a leis- 
 urely gait, when, in turning a bend in the road, they 
 caught sight of a bamboo hut, standing in the edge 
 of the wood, and about a rod from the highway. 
 
A JA UNT THRO UOH JA 7A. ?,9 
 
 " Halloo !" exclaimed the American ; " there is a 
 native house !" 
 
 " Tes ; that's the hotel where we are going to 
 stay to-night." 
 
 " Have you ever been here before ?" 
 
 " Tes ; father and 1 were up here last July to see 
 Jurak." 
 
 "Jurak?" repeated the wondering Hermon; 
 *• whom do you mean ?" 
 
 " Jurak and his wife, Myeta, live in that hut ; they 
 have a son who is married and lives near Surabaya. 
 Jurak is one of the best workers on a coffee planta- 
 tion, and he has been most valuable to father ever 
 since I can remember. Last summer he was bitten 
 by a snake, and everybody thought he would die. 
 This is a good ways from our plantation, as you can 
 see, and he spent only his Sundays at home. "We 
 did not hear of his misfortune until the second day, 
 when we mounted our horses and hurried out here 
 to see him. It was a long and hard ride." 
 
 " How did you find him ?" 
 
 " He was a dreadful sight : he had been bitten on 
 the ankle, and his leg was swollen until it seemed to 
 me the skin must burst. It was discolored so that 
 father whispered to me he believed gangrene had 
 set in, and there was no hope for him ; but one of 
 the native physicians came in while we were there, 
 and took him in charge. I don't know how he 
 handled him, but he began to get better right away, 
 and within a week he was as well as ever." 
 
30 A J A VNT TWRO VOH JA VA, 
 
 " Which goes to show that our doctors have much 
 to learn. I suppose Jurak was pleased with your 
 caU?" 
 
 " You never saw a more grateful fellow ; he 
 really felt as thankful to us, especially to father, as 
 he did to the doctor who managed to pull him 
 through. lU as he was he knew us when we walked 
 into his hut, and his dark eyes looked the gratitude 
 which he tried to express in words. "We brought 
 him some wine and delicacies that mother sent him. 
 He will be glad to see us." 
 
 The, bamboo hut which they approached was 
 strongly built, as though the builder felt there were 
 some dangers beside the elements against which he 
 needed protection. It was only a single story in 
 height, with two rooms, or apartments. The floor 
 was the ground, but the sharpened bamboo which 
 made the walls were driven so deeply into the earth 
 that nothing could crawl through from the outside. 
 Fire was only needed for cooking purposes, and dur- 
 ing the dry season that was kindled on the outside 
 beneath the shade of some trees, where a few sim- 
 ple utensils were at command. 
 
 Contrary to the usual custom, there was a single 
 wmdow on each side of the front room, and a few 
 flowers growing around the open space surrounding 
 it, giving a cheerful and inviting appearance to the 
 cofllee worker's home. 
 
 Just as the boys turned to leave the highway 
 Eustace stopped short and looked around. 
 
A JA UNT THRO UOH JA VA. Zl 
 
 "I wonder where that dog is," he said; "like 
 enough he is a mile or so up the road." 
 
 Puckering his lips, he emitted a shrill whistle, 
 which was hardly uttered when Tweak bounded 
 into sight only a few rods away. The intelligent 
 animal stood stiU and looked knowingly at them, as 
 if to say : 
 
 " It's all rignt ; don't fret yourself about me ; I'll 
 be within call whenever I'm wanted." 
 
 The door of the hut or dwelling was open, and 
 before the two youths reached it Myeta, the wife of 
 Jurak, was observed standing in it and looking in- 
 quiringly at her callers. She was short and stout, 
 with a long, dark-colored robe, gathered loosely 
 around her figure, and bound by a sash close under 
 the arm, so that her appearance suggested the well- 
 known Mother Hubbard dresses of the present day. 
 The resemblance was strengthened by the arrange- 
 ment of her head-gear. The long, coarse, black 
 hair was gathered in a large coil on the crown, 
 around which was tied a turban, so dark that, at a 
 distance, it would be taken as a part of the natural 
 covering of the head. 
 
 She looked grave and serious until Eustace turned 
 his head from caUing his dog. Then, as she recog- 
 nized him, her broad, yeUow face broke into an 
 expansive smile, as she uttered a pleased exclama- 
 tion in her native tongue. 
 
 It cannot be said that Myeta was handsome, 
 
32 A JA UNT THRO UQH JA VA. 
 
 though she may have' had some such claims a score 
 of years before. Her nose was short, but of aquiline 
 form, and when she smiled her little bead-like eyes 
 were almost hidden by the fat and wrinkles. That 
 which was the most displeasing, however, was her 
 teeth, which, though sound and even, had been dis- 
 colored when she was much younger by some decoc- 
 tion, so that all of them were almost as dark as her 
 hair. 
 
 But Hermon had noticed the same peculiarity 
 among the Javanese, and had become, in some 
 degree, used to it. Myeta stood with her arms, 
 naked to the elbows, hanging by her side, and was so 
 pleased to see the son of her husband's employer 
 and good friend that she stepped nimbly from the 
 door with an odd, cackling laugh, and before the 
 amused Hermon saw what she meant to do threw 
 both arms about the neck of Eustace and gave him 
 a hearty kiss upon his cheek. 
 
 " She is very fond of you," said the young Ameri- 
 can ; " I don't wonder that you felt you would be 
 welcome " 
 
 At that moment the fat arms of the demonstra- 
 tive Myeta were flung around Hermon, and he was 
 saluted in the same manner, and with such vigor 
 that his hat fell to the ground. 
 
 " That's because you're my companion," said the 
 smiling Eustace; "thus we see the advantages of 
 friends at court. She can't talk English at all. 
 
A JA UNT THRO UGH JA VA. 33 
 
 though her husband speaks it well ; so you needn't 
 be afraid to talk freely before her." 
 
 " "What's his style of receiving strangers ?" asked 
 Hermon, carefully replacing his hat. 
 
 " Jurak makes great pretensions to being a 
 Caucasian in his manners. He hardly ever speaks 
 Javanese, except where he has to do so to make 
 himself understood. He wiU shake you by the hand, 
 and show he is glad to have you as his guest." 
 
 Having made her salutations, Myeta, with 
 another comical laugh, whirled about and ran chat- 
 tering into the door, expecting, of course, her visitors 
 to follow her. They did so, Eustace leading the 
 way. 
 
 The room which they entered was about a dozen 
 feet square, and was furnished in an inexpensive 
 style. There were three stools made of bamboo, a 
 plain stand or table constructed from Javanese teak, 
 a piece of rag carpet containing three or four square 
 yards, several garments belonging to the wife and 
 husband hanging on pegs fastened in the side of the 
 building, and, with the exception of a few trifling 
 articles, that was about all. 
 
 On the stand lay a long-handled Dutch pipe, with 
 a paper of tobacco, from which a lot had been 
 spilled. As seen by Hermon, it looked precisely 
 like dried tea leaves. On another part of the table 
 were a number of cups, saucers, bowls, spoons, and 
 other articles, aU of which had been given to Myeta 
 by Mrs. Hadley, the mother of Eustace. 
 
34 A JA UNT THRO UGH J A VA. 
 
 The moment the fat little housewife was inside 
 her home she dropped upon one of the stools, and, 
 folding her hands over her lap, smiled more ex- 
 pansively than ever, and began chattering with 
 Eustace at a bewildering rate. The youth under- 
 stood the native tongue well enough to sustain a 
 conversation in it, though he could not begin to 
 equal her. Hermon could only sit still and listen 
 and look, without catching the meaning of a syl- 
 lable. He and his cousin had set their rifles down 
 in one corner, and laid their hats on the floor beside 
 them. Hermon noticed the features of the place 
 which I have named, and his eyes also observed the 
 door which opened into the rear apartment. This 
 was merely an opening just broad enough to permit 
 the passage of a person. A curtain of, light-colored 
 cloth was looped at the side, so that it could be 
 dropped down and shut out all view of what lay 
 beyond. Hermon caught a glimpse of the dark 
 'floor of earth, but saw nothing else. 
 
 Suddenly Myeta, while smiling and chatting at 
 her best, uttered a half-cackling whoop and leaped 
 from her seat as if bitten by a serpent, and plunged 
 headlong out of the door. 
 
 "What's the matter? what has alarmed her?" 
 asked the frightened Hermon. 
 
 " JSTothing ; she is impulsive ; when she asked me 
 whether I would like something to eat, and I said 
 yes, she set out to get our supper for us. That is 
 her enthusiastic style." 
 
A M UNT TURO UQH J A VA. 35 
 
 " It is entiiusiastic, indeed ; but where is her hus- 
 band?" 
 
 "Jurak went up the mountain this afternoon 
 with his gun ; he had permission to spend several 
 days home, and to-day news reached him that a 
 tiger had been seen only a few miles away." 
 
 " A tiger !" exclaimed Hermon, with a flash of 
 the eye ; " I wish we could get a chance at him !" 
 
 "I don't know about that," replied Eustace, 
 gravely shaking his head ; " the tiger in Java is the 
 royal Bengal of India, and you know he is the most 
 terrible creature in the world. He will dash right 
 into a house like this, and tear it into pieces in his 
 eagerness to get at the inmates. They are not very 
 numerous in Java, but we meet them once in a 
 while. This tiger dragged a boy from a cart on 
 this very road, carried him a short distance mto 
 the woods, and left only his bones. He is a fearful 
 beast, and if the natives hunt him they will do so in 
 large numbers." 
 
86 4 JA If NT TERO UOE JA VA. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 AW irarWELOOME VISITOE. 
 
 ISN'T Myeta alarmed for her husband's safety ?" 
 asked Hermon, a few minutes later. 
 
 " No ; he has been on tiger-hunts before ; there- 
 fore he knows the danger, and will be cautious. 
 She says he may be home this morning, and he may 
 be absent for a day or two." 
 
 The conversation was interrupted by Myeta, who 
 came through the door as if the tiger was after her ; 
 but she was grinning and chattering in the same 
 overwhelming fashion. Removing the pipe, tobacco, 
 and several articles from the table, she picked it up 
 and started out, with the dishes, forks, etc., upon it. 
 Hermon sprang up to offer help, but Eustace told 
 him she did not wish it, and he sat down again. 
 
 "Within a few moments the boys were asked out- 
 side ; and taking their stools with them, they sat 
 down in the shade before the table, though the na- 
 tives, as a rule, sit upon the ground when taking 
 their meals. 
 
 Hermon was pleased to note a certain cleanliness, 
 which was not expected from what he first saw. 
 The table itself had been brushed free from dust 
 
A JA UNT THRO UGH J A VA. 37 
 
 and foreign particles, and the dishes and everything 
 were devoid of dirt. On the Httle fire burning near 
 by had been prepared some tea, as cheering and 
 deUcious as he had ever tasted. There was some 
 lamb chops also, " done to a turn," and some yellow- 
 colored rice ; and the bread, though dark in color, 
 and with a peculiar seedy taste, was light and nour- 
 ishing. "Water, too, was abundant, cool, clear, and 
 sparkling. 
 
 The long tramp of the boys had given them keen 
 appetites, and they captivated the impulsive Myeta 
 by the vigor with which they disposed of what she 
 set before them. She did not join them at the table, 
 but narrowly watched the two from a respectful dis- 
 tance, eager to anticipate their every want. They 
 laughed, when, with her queer exclamation, as she 
 saw Hermon transfer the last chop to his plate, she 
 sprang for several uncooked ones, and lost no time 
 in placing them over the fire. 
 
 When the meal was finished Tweak came frolick- 
 ing up to his master, and claimed notice. Myeta un- 
 derstood what he wanted, and the animal was sup- 
 plied with food. Then, as the cousins sat on the 
 grass outside and chatted over the good things they 
 had had together in America, so many thousand 
 miles away, they noticed that it was night and the 
 f ull moon was shining overhead. 
 
 Hermon had never seen a greater flood of moon- 
 light, even when sailing over the ooean, wl^er§ tie 
 
38 -i JA UNT THRO TTOH JA VA. 
 
 saw many nights of marvelous brightness. The twi- 
 light in that latitude is short, and it seemed to him 
 as if it was really lighter than when the sun was 
 dipping below the horizon. The air, while not cold, 
 was delightful, and the long tramp they had taken 
 gave a zest to their idle lolling upon the ground. 
 
 Myeta took but a short time to clear away the 
 " things," after completing her own meal. She car- 
 ried the table into the front room, and saying some- 
 thing to Eustace, passed out of sight into the rear 
 apartment. 
 
 Hermon asked what her words meant. 
 
 " She told us not to stay out too late, for the tiger 
 might come this way. She bade us good-night, and 
 we shall not see her again until she comes from her 
 room in the morning. I think, Hermon, it will be 
 wise for us to go inside." 
 
 The younger cousin laughed at what he looked 
 upon as timidity, but, making no objections, fol- 
 lowed Eustace within. They reclined on the piece 
 of carpet, which was drawn up near the door, and 
 looked on the moonlit space between the hut and 
 the road. The illumination W£|,s so fuil that one 
 could have read fine print by it, and the highway 
 was as distinctly visible as at midday. 
 
 Hermon was telling his cousin some experience of 
 his when on the steamer which brought him to Java, 
 when he noticed that he made no comment at the 
 conclusion of the gtory. He asked bim what he ha4 
 
A J A mr rsno ms u va. gg 
 
 to say, and still receiving no reply, turned around to 
 learn the cause of his silence. He saw that he was 
 stretched out at full length, on his face, and sound 
 asleep. 
 
 " I'll watch the road awhile," muttered Hermon, 
 with a smile, "and then I'U shut the door and go to 
 ^eep." 
 
 As may be supposed, less than a quarter of an 
 hour had passed when the drooping head of the 
 American sank to the ground, and he, too, passed 
 off into the land of dreams, leaving the door of the 
 bamboo hut wide open. In such a well-governed 
 country as Java there is little to be feared from 
 marauders, but Jurak and Myeta never thought of 
 retiring to rest without fastening the single outside 
 door, and the guests were expected to do the same ; 
 and they would have done it had they not fallen 
 
 When Hermon awoke he found himself lying 
 near the door, with Eustace still soundly asleep, 
 while it was to be presumed that Myeta was in the 
 same condition, since aU was silent in the direction 
 of her apartment. 
 
 " My gracious ! that was careless !" whispered 
 Hermon ; " the door has been open all the time we 
 were asleep!" 
 
 ]!Tot wishing to disturb his companion, he softly 
 rose and moved forward on tiptoe. Nothing had 
 been seen of Tweak since supper, and it was safe to 
 
40 A J A UNT THRO UQE JA VA. 
 
 presume lie liad taken lodging somewhere in the 
 woods. 
 
 When Hermon stepped outside he found the 
 moonlight so wonderfully brilliant that he walked 
 forward a few steps and drew out his watch. He 
 saw by the figures that it was a few minutes past 
 midnight. 
 
 "I don't suppose they will awake before sun- 
 rise " 
 
 Precisely why, he could not teU, but some cause 
 led him to glance to the left, toward the upper part of 
 the highway, in the direction of the Sacred Mountain. 
 As he did so he was transfixed by the most fearful 
 sight on which he had ever gazed. In full view, 
 and no more than a hundred feet distant, on the 
 open space, close to the highway, stood a splendid 
 royal Bengal tiger — one of the largest of his species. 
 
 He was evidently coming down the road on a 
 search for food when he caught sight of the young 
 man as he emerged from the bamboo hut and exam- 
 ined the face of his watch by moonlight. The 
 beast, walking as softly as a cat, stopped short, 
 raised his head, and inspected the stranger. 
 
 And Hermon Hadley, having advanced several 
 paces from the door, also stopped short, and fixed 
 his eye on the most dreaded quadruped that lives in 
 jungle or forest ! 
 
 When the youth expressed the hope that he would 
 gain sight of the tiger known to be in the neighbor- 
 
A JA UNT THRO UQH JAVA. 41 
 
 hood, he little dreamed that his wish would be grat- 
 ified so soon. Certain it is he had no desire to meet 
 the beast under such circumstances, and with the 
 advantages so much on the side of the enemy. 
 
 While no animal can be named of which the royal 
 Bengal tiger has any fear, and while he looks upon 
 man as little more than a plaything, it was clear 
 that the one which saw young Hadley was surprised. 
 This was proven by his action, or rather want of 
 action. "Within a short time previous he had killed 
 a native youth, and, whQe prowling around the coun- 
 try in search of others, he suddenly saw a young 
 man come out of a native hut and walk toward him, 
 as if about to offer himself as a sacrifice. Certainly 
 it was not in accord with the rule by which he 
 secured his meals. 
 
 But though young Hadley was transfixed by the 
 sight, it was only for a moment. He was quick to 
 realize that it was no time for weakness or hesita- 
 tion. A hungry tiger " means business " from the 
 first, and it would not take this specimen long to 
 settle on his course of action. 
 
 " If I had my gun I would not care," was the 
 thought of Hermon; "but it won't do to stand 
 here." 
 
 Instead of whirling about and dashing through 
 the open door of the hut the youth began stepping 
 slowly backward, with his gaze fixed on the fero- 
 cious beast. Well aware of the prodigious activity 
 
43 -4 JA WHT TERO UGE J A VA. 
 
 of his foe, he was afraid that if he started to run 
 the animal would be at his heels before he could 
 seize his gun or close the door. The instant the lad 
 showed he was retreating the tiger would leap after 
 him, while a guarded withdrawal might not be noticed 
 until Hermon had secured the advantage he sought. 
 
 He was quick to act on this view of the situation, 
 and in his eagerness to lay hand on his loaded rifle 
 he retrograded so fast that the tiger must have dis- 
 covered what he was doing. 
 
 A situation more alarming than that of Hermon 
 cannot be conceived ; for only a few steps distant 
 lay his cousin, sunk in peaceful slumber, a most in- 
 viting prey to the tiger. Any way, it looked as if 
 the brute was to gain the supper he was seeking, 
 and that, too, without inconvenience to himself. 
 
 Hermon had Ufted his foot to take the fourth 
 backward step, and he was sure the tiger was gath- 
 ering his mighty muscles for a spring toward him, 
 when some slight noise in the wood behind the ani- 
 mal arrested his attention. The youth saw the head 
 flirt backward, and then, as noiselessly as a shadow, 
 the animal turned, so that he stood broadside toward 
 him, with his inquiring gaze centered on the suspi- 
 cious point in the rear. 
 
 This was Hermon's chance. Turning like a flash, 
 he made a couple of quick bounds, and was within 
 the bamboo hut. The bright moonlight streamed 
 through the open door g^nd fell on the feet and legs 
 
A J A UNT THRO U&H J A VA. 43 
 
 of Eustace, the upper part of whose body lay in 
 shadow. Eemembering just where the guns stood, 
 Hermon caught up his own and stepped to the 
 front. 
 
 The tiger had vanished. Not the slightest noise 
 betrayed his departure, but the keen vision of the 
 youth, roving over the brightly-lit opening, saw 
 nothing of him. 
 
 And yet, for all that, he might be closer than be- 
 fore. Hermon shuddered as he reflected that possi- 
 bly he was in the act of stealing upon him that 
 very moment. He lost no time in closing the door 
 and putting in place the ponderous wooden bolt 
 with which Jurak had provided it. 
 
 " What are you doing ?" asked his cousin, only 
 half-awake. 
 
 "Only fastening the door against that tiger 
 which is outside," repHed Hermon, grimly enjoying 
 the consternation he knew his words would cause. 
 
 "What!" gasped Eustace, coming to a sitting 
 position with the suddenness of a jumping-jack. 
 
 " I saw that tiger — and he is a splendid-looking 
 creature — standing outside in the opening, and I 
 think he wants to come in here !" 
 
 " If he wants to come in, nothing will keep him 
 out!" exclaimed Eustace, who was on his feet, gun 
 in hand, the next instant. " I tell you," he added, 
 after glancing out of the narrow window without 
 catching sight of him, " that the tiger is the worst 
 
44 A JA UNT THRO UGS JA VA. 
 
 animal in the world. Old hunters will say that. 
 Sometimes five hundred men wiU engage in hunting 
 a single beast, and every one of the five hundred 
 will tremble in his footsteps when he knows he is 
 anywhere near the creature." 
 
 " I supposed the real royal Bengal tiger was found 
 only in India." 
 
 " Java was once a part of the continent of Asia," 
 said Eustace, giving expression to the generally ac- 
 cepted theory about that remarkable country, " and 
 we have a good many of their animals." 
 
 "While the two were speaking, one was standing 
 at the narrow window on the right and the other 
 one on the left. Though separated by the breadth 
 of the room, it will be understood they were quite 
 close together. They spoke in low tones, naturally 
 timid about attracting the notice of the fierce beast 
 outside, and desirous at the same time of not dis- 
 turbing the slumber of Myeta in the next apartment. 
 Hermon had given his account of his thrilUng ex- 
 perience, and Eustace shuddered to think by what a 
 narrow chance the whole three had escaped for the 
 time. 
 
 A few moments later, the tiger, advancing toward 
 the open door, would have pounced upon the sleepers 
 and made short work of them. It was providential 
 indeed that Hermon awoke when he did. 
 
 " Do you think he wiU come back V asked the 
 younger. 
 
A J A UNT THBO UOH J A YA. 46 
 
 " I am afraid so ; I hope not, for I would rather 
 see any wild beast in Java than him ; but, if he does 
 come, I think it likely he won't molest us, if we 
 don't molest him. Tou see he wiU be a little 
 puzzled by the hut, and he wiU walk around it, 
 studying the best way of attacking it. A tiger likes 
 to see some signs of Life before he leaps upon his 
 prey, and if all is still within he may go away with- 
 out assailing us." 
 
 " Then, if he lets us alone, you think it best for us 
 to let him aJone 3" was the inquiring remark of Her- 
 mon. 
 
 " Yes, indeed ! If he shows himself, don't stir or 
 make the least noise." 
 
 " That depends on circumstances," was the mental 
 remark of Hermon, who could not bring himself to 
 feel the dread of the tiger which showed itself in 
 every word of his cousin. 
 
 Perhaps, if he had been as familiar with the ani- 
 mal as was Eustace, Hermon would have shared 
 that dread with him. 
 
46 ^ JA UMT TMBO VGM J A VA. 
 
 CHAPTER V, 
 
 A EIFLE-SHOT. 
 
 THE COUSINS exchanged a few more -words 
 and then became silent. They felt it was 
 hardly the time for conversation, and there was need 
 of bein^ vigilant. 
 
 Eustace was hopeful that the disturbing cause 
 which had drawn away the attention of the tiger at 
 the critical moment had resulted in his departure 
 from the vicinity. Knowing the amazing strength, 
 courage and ferocity of the brute, the youth would 
 be timid about venturing from the hut, even during 
 the day-time. 
 
 Hermon did not know whether he wished the 
 brute to go away or not. Sometimes he thought 
 that if Eustace was so fearful of him he ought to 
 feel the same; but there was a lingering natural 
 desire that he might be given the chance for one 
 good shot. 
 
 " By Oeorge ! there he is .'" suddenly whispered 
 Eustace. 
 
 Hermon stepped lightly forward and peeped over 
 the shoulder of his QQiism, who said, in ^fee same 
 guarded voice : 
 
A 3 A UNT tMRO ms 3 A tA. i*t 
 
 " He's just gone around the rear ; he's recotinoiter. 
 ing and trying to make up his mind which is the 
 best way of attacking us. Be careful !" 
 
 Hermon was back to his own window just in time 
 to gain full sight of the magnificent brute, which, as 
 Eustace had said, was doubtless studying the best 
 way of assaiUng the hut. As he walked around the 
 suspicious object with his cat-like tread, he was less 
 than fifteen feet distant. He was a royal creature 
 indeed, and stood revealed in the moonlight the very 
 embodiment of grace, beauty, and tremendous mus- 
 cular power. No wonder that he feared nothing, 
 and looked upon every living creature as his prey. 
 
 When he came directly opposite Hermon, the 
 latter raised his rifle, and with the muzzle projecting 
 a few inches from the narrow window of the hut 
 took dead aim at him. Eustace, who was looking 
 for the brute to appear each moment on his side, did 
 not notice the slight click of the gun-lock, and there- 
 fore had no suspicion of the purpose of his com- 
 panion. 
 
 With a coolness that was. surprising, Hermon 
 waited until the tiger thrust forward his fore leg, so 
 that the route to his heart was left open, and then 
 he fired. 
 
 It would be hard to say which was the more 
 amazed for the instant, the tiger or Eustace Hadley, 
 for the shot was as unexpected to the one as to the 
 other. 
 
48 ^ J-A- UNT THRO UOE J A TA. 
 
 "Gracious! what have you done?" exclaimed 
 Eustace, bounding to the side of his friend. 
 
 " I've killed the tiger," replied Hermon, bending 
 forward and looldng out of the window. 
 
 Astonishing as was the declaration, it was the 
 truth. Everything united to help Hermon. The 
 distance separating him from the brute was slight, 
 and he was given the opportunity to make his aim 
 certain. He held one of the. best of weapons in his 
 hand, and Gordon Gumming himself never fired with 
 more coolness. 
 
 No matter how enormous the strength and 
 vitality, no matter how fierce the animal, one little 
 ounce of lead directed to the right spot will bring it 
 low. The tiny bullet through the heart of the 
 behemoth drives out life just as surely as does the 
 arrow which cleaves the heart of the sparrow on the 
 wing. 
 
 "When hit by the rifle-ball the tiger made one ter- 
 rific bound straight upward, as though an immense 
 spring-board had flung him aloft, and, landing on 
 his feet, he rolled over, clawed the air viciously, 
 snarling and writhing in pain, and then he ceased 
 his struggles and became still ; he was stone dead. 
 
 The report of the gun startled Myeta from her 
 sleep ; and, thrusting her head through the cur- 
 tained door, she asked in a frightened undertone 
 what it meant. When Eustace told her that the 
 rifle that had just gone off had killed the tiger, she 
 
A JA UN7 THRO UQH JA YA. 49 
 
 could not believe him until she had hastily dressed 
 and come forth. 
 
 " That's the most wonderful thing I ever knew," 
 said Eustace ; " it seems incredible, and I can 
 scarcely realize it ; it will make you a hero among 
 all who hear of it." 
 
 " I don't understand why it should," replied Har- 
 mon. " I can see why it is considered an exploit for 
 a hunter to shoot a full-grown tiger, but with me it 
 was a piece of good luck. Had we met him in the 
 woods, it isn't likely anything of the kind would 
 have taken place ; but he came up within the right 
 distance, and a poorer marksman than I could have 
 sent a buUet through his heart." 
 
 "By George!" added Eustace a minute later, 
 while unfastening the door, "if you had fired on 
 him when he stood with his head toward you, out 
 there in the opening, there would have been a differ- 
 ent story to tell. The whole thing was providen- 
 tial, indeed ! Let's take a look at him !" 
 
 " Isn't there any danger from his mate ?" 
 
 "No; they don't often travel together; but we 
 may as well take our guns with us." 
 
 The youths, each with his rifle in hand, and ac- 
 companied by Myeta, as much interested as they, 
 passed through the open door of the hut and over 
 the brief space to where the dead inonarch of the 
 jungle lay. 
 
 "With a lingering fear that he might not be dead 
 
50 A J A UNT THRO UOH JA VA. 
 
 thej kept a respectful distance for a minute or two ; 
 but it was soon apparent that not a spark of life re- 
 mained. Myeta did not approach close, but the 
 boys pushed him with their guns, and even kicked 
 the limbs and powerless legs. 
 
 Ah, if the beast had been alive when that indig- 
 nity had been put upon him ! 
 
 One suggestive fact was noticed by Hermon and 
 Eustace ; the sharp claws and teeth of the tiger 
 showed that he had recently eaten food. They were 
 covered with the evidence, and it was more than 
 likely that the slight noise which distracted his 
 notice when Hermon was stealthily withdrawing 
 from before him saved the life of the lad, but it did 
 so at the expense of another life, which was thus 
 involuntarily given for that of him who, in the end, 
 slew the tiger himself. 
 
 The little party did not spend much time in ad- 
 miring the dead tiger, for the hour was late, and 
 Hermon could not free himself from a fear that an- 
 other one of the animals was prowling in the vicin- 
 ity. They returned to the bamboo hut, therefore, 
 and fastened the door with unusual care. Myeta 
 withdrew to her apartment, and the boys, stretching 
 out on the carpet, soon fell into a sound slumber 
 which lasted until sunrise, when it was broken by 
 their hostess. 
 
 Hermon was hopeful that Jurak would reach 
 home before their departure, but he did not. Bid' 
 
A J A UNT THRO UGH J A VA. 51 
 
 ding their kind hostess good-by, after a morning 
 meal, they left, following the well-traveled road 
 which ran almost due south. The elevation steadily 
 increased, and a gradual change in the temperature 
 was felt. The dog. Tweak, did not show up, and 
 they therefore went away without him. 
 
 The sky was clear, and a gentle breeze fanned 
 their faces, which became somewhat flushed from 
 the hard exercise of climbing what may be called 
 the backbone of the land. 
 
 " Tou see," said Eustace, " there isn't any doubt 
 that Java, like many other islands around us, was 
 once a part of the continent of Asia." 
 
 "What proof is there of that ?" 
 
 " There are lots of them ; the volcanoes them- 
 selves show that great upheavals have taken place. 
 I am speaking, you understand, of Borneo and Su- 
 matra, as well as of this island. In those two I have 
 named you will find the elephant and tapir, and in 
 Sumatra and this island are the rhinoceros. Many 
 of the wild cattle which they used to believe were 
 peculiar to Java are now known to exist in different 
 parts of Asia." 
 
 " There was no way by which they could have 
 been brought across the water, I suppose ?" 
 
 " The only way I know of is by ships and vessels, 
 which, I believe, those animals have never been sus- 
 pected of building." 
 
 " How about the birds and insects ?" 
 
52 A JAUNl THBOUQE JAVA. 
 
 " They add to the proof. Some people naturally 
 think that birds will pass from one country to an- 
 other when the water separating them is not too 
 extensive, but it isn't so. In Java we have many 
 kinds of birds which never cross over to Sumatra, 
 only fifteen miles away, with islands in the middle 
 of the strait that separates us. We have more birds 
 and insects peculiar to ourselves than have either 
 Sumatra or Borneo." 
 
 " What does that show «" 
 
 " That Java was detached from the continent long 
 before Borneo and Sumatra. Another fact is that 
 the sea between these islands and Asia is shallow ; 
 but," added Eustace with a laugh, " I don't see the 
 need of my going into such an argument, when I 
 haven't heard you dispute it." 
 
 " No, I am satisfied that not only these islands, 
 but the Philippine, and aU that string off eastern 
 Asia, once belonged to the continent, and in some 
 vast upheaval they moved out to sea, and will stay 
 there until another overturning comes." 
 
 The road which the youths were following still 
 wound through the woods, among the rocks, and 
 across patches of open land, where the grass grew 
 luxuriantly on both sides of the highway. A short 
 distance from the hut of Jurak they met a couple of 
 natives. They were fine specimens of young 
 Javanese, though when Hermon looked upon them 
 he felt that it would be an easy matter to fling each 
 
A J A TINT THRO UOH J A VA. 53 
 
 over his head in a wrestling bout. They lacked the 
 strong, lusty vigor and admirable proportions that 
 are shown to perfection in the Caucasian race. 
 
 In fact, these two youths were excellent examples 
 of the Javanese branch of the Malay race, but there 
 was nothing attractive in their appearance. Their 
 narrow, sloping shoulders and their slight figures 
 were not likely to inspire respect or fear. Their 
 faces were irregular in shape, and the eyes of one 
 were raised at the corners, as is often seen among 
 the Mongolians. Their noses, which were not flat, 
 though short, saved their features from real ugli- 
 ness. The lips of both were thick and projecting, 
 and on the upper ones were a dozen or so puny 
 hairs — the nearest approach to a mustache. How- 
 ever, they were quite intelligent, and the fact that 
 each carried a long spear suggested to the boys the 
 errand on which they were engaged. 
 
 A short but spirited talk with Eustace in the 
 Javanese tongue made known the general consterna- 
 tion that the tiger had caused. He was known to 
 have slain several people, and I may as well add, 
 what I have hinted, that the slight sound which 
 drew the creature away from his attack on Hermon 
 Hadley, when he stepped out of the hut, was caused 
 by the approach of a person who never knew his 
 danger until the tiger bounded upon and bore him to 
 the earth. The bones of this poor fellow were after- 
 ward found within twenty rods of Jurak's hut. 
 
64 ^ u mf mm mM u va. 
 
 The beast could not have been famishing directly 
 after, but his taste for blood was not fully satisfied, 
 as was shown by his prowhng around the place in 
 which the youth had taken refuge. 
 
 The inquiries made by Eustace showed there was 
 but the single tiger that caused all this alarm. In 
 the luxuriant forests beyond them, stretching for 
 many miles toward the rocky southern coast, were 
 found the black as well as the Bengal tiger, besides 
 numerous other dangerous wild beasts. So long as 
 the worst of them kept within those limits, little 
 harm resulted ; but now and then, as in this in- 
 stance, some animal would come outside and create 
 havoc and a general panic. 
 
 The tiger had been heard a number of miles away, 
 and was known to be working to the northward. 
 The natives, whom the boys met, were out to sum- 
 mon several hundred of the neighbors for the pur- 
 pose of hunting the animal. Their method was to 
 surround him in some jungle, swamp or thicket, and 
 then gradually narrow the circle, until he would 
 rush out and attack those nearest him. The moment 
 he did so, a multitude of spears would be buried in 
 his body. 
 
 When Eustace Hadley told these young men that 
 the beast was shot the night before by the modest- 
 looking young gentleman standing a few feet away 
 and listening to their words, without understanding 
 a syllable, they hardly believed him ; but he insisted, 
 
A JA UNT THRO Uan J A VA. S5 
 
 and gave the particulars until they could not refuse 
 to credit the amazing story. They surveyed Her- 
 mon with such admiring looks that he flushed and 
 was embarrassed. 
 
 " Eustace, what are you telling them about me ?" 
 he asked. 
 
 " "When a fellow comes all the way from America 
 and kills one of the biggest tigers in Java, why, you 
 don't suppose the story is going to shrink while I 
 have charge of it? Not if I know myself," said 
 Eustace, laughing and enjoying the confusion of his 
 friend. " After I had made them believe you really 
 kiUed the animal, they were ready to swallow any- 
 thing I might say as to the methods. What if I did 
 relate how you sprang from the limb of a tree and 
 landed on the back of the tiger ; that you held him 
 by the ears, so he could not turn to bite you, and 
 then wrestled and finally flung him off the rocks." 
 
 " Oh, my gracious !" exclaimed the disgusted 
 Hermon, turning about and starting up the road ; 
 " I can't stand everything !" 
 
 Eustace laughed merrily. Then he hastened after 
 his cousin, calling out that he had told the youths 
 nothing but the simple truth, for that was enough to 
 cause their eyes to protrude with wonder. 
 
 When Hermon stopped, after walking a short 
 distance, and looked around, he observed the two 
 Javanese still standing in the middle of the highway 
 and staring at him, as though be was the gre^te^^ 
 
56 A J A UNT THRO UOH J A VA. 
 
 hero that had ever set foot on the island. He began 
 to fear that this business was likely to become any- 
 thing but pleasant to him. 
 
 The boys had gone less than half a mile when 
 they encountered three other natives, each of whom 
 held a long, formidable spear. Hermon begged his 
 cousin to make no reference to him in whatever was 
 said to them, but the conversation hadn't lasted two 
 minutes when the three turned about and gazed with 
 such fixedness and admiration on the young Ameri- 
 can that he knew Eustace was giving the story again 
 in his most flowery fashion. 
 
 " I'm getting tired of this," he said. " How many 
 more of these simpletons are we likely to meet ?" 
 
 " "Well, you know, Java is one of the most thickly- 
 populated countries in the world, and this part of 
 the island seems to be up and in arms on account of 
 the promenade of that single tiger. Oh, I don't 
 suppose," said Eustace airily, " that we are likely to 
 meet more than, several hundred more this fore- 
 noon t" 
 
A J A UNT THBO tlOH JA VA. 57 
 
 CHAPTER VL 
 
 THE LONELT LAKE AIJD A STAETLINQ ADVENTirBB. 
 
 ASHOET distance farther, and Eustace, acting 
 as the guide, turned abruptly to the left, and 
 entered the wild, broken country where there was 
 no highway, and the only paths were such as were 
 worn by the feet of wild animals. The Indian 
 Ocean, with its rocky, volcanic shores, was scarcely 
 twenty-five miles in a direct line to the south, while 
 the low, unhealthy marshes that stretch along the 
 line of the Java Sea were still less remote to the 
 north. 
 
 The island, as I have shown, is one of the most 
 populous in the world, and is so well g iverned that 
 nothing is to be feared from lawless men. 
 
 In the depths of the mountainous region, how- 
 ever, on which they were entering, were many 
 strange and fierce wild beasts. The youths would 
 have been reckless beyond excuse had they at- 
 tempted such an exploration without their fire-arms. 
 
 Hermon noticed that for a time they ascended no 
 higher. Instead of climbing the mountains, some of 
 which still towered far above them, they seemed to 
 have reached the borders of a large plateau, where 
 
58 A JA USft THRO UQ3 JA VA. 
 
 rocks, forest trees and vegetation were so abundant 
 that they could see only the briefest possible dis- 
 tance in advance. Had they not made full prepara- 
 tion for this sort of traveling they would have 
 become lost within the space of half an hour. Each 
 carried an excellent pocket-compass, and as the elder 
 was familiar with the contour of the island and the 
 precise direction they must take in order to reach 
 any point, they gave little heed to their footsteps, 
 but wandered along like a couple of truant children, 
 careless whither their steps led them. 
 
 And during these wanderings it must not be sup- 
 posed that they saw but few signs of animal life. 
 They were hardly ever out of sight ; and many an 
 exclamation of amazement and delight fell from the 
 lips of Hermon, who for the first time in his life met 
 numerous wonders of the tropical forest. They had 
 not yet passed the boundaries of the second zone in 
 Java, which I have described elsewhere. In the 
 first were the rice-fields, sugar plantations, cocoa-nuts, 
 cinnamon and, cotton, while in the one which our 
 young friends were traversing were the coffee and 
 tea plantations, the sugar-palm and the maize. 
 
 The cousins were pushing their way in this leis- 
 urely fashion when Eustace, who was in advance, 
 brought his gun to his shoulder and fired. 
 
 "What is it?" asked Hermon, unable to see 
 clearly on account of the intervening vegetation. 
 
 " Something for dinner — a kidang or mintjac." 
 
A JA UNT THRO UGH JA VA. 59 
 
 " I am glad to Imow it," said Hermon, who had 
 never before heard the queer names ; " I thought it 
 was that sort of bird. Did you take him on the 
 wing ?" 
 
 Eustace laughed, and after advancing a few steps 
 paused beside a delicate little deer, which he had 
 shot. He explained that the kidang and rusa are 
 two kinds of deer that are bunted in Java for sport, 
 and sometimes for their food, both being excellent. 
 When a portion of the creature was dressed and 
 cooked over a small fire it formed a nourishing and 
 palatable dinner, seasoned as it was with the mixture 
 of salt and pepper with which each was furnished. 
 
 "If I am not mistaken," said Eustace, looking 
 around as though he recognized the spot, " we are 
 not far from a small lake." 
 
 "I feel thirsty," remarked Hermon, "and was 
 wondering how much longer you would go before 
 suggesting that a drink wouldn't be a bad thing." 
 
 "There are plenty of pitchers to carry it in," 
 added Eustace, with a smile which brought a nod 
 from Hermon. 
 
 " I have noticed a good many of them ever since 
 we left the highway." 
 
 The boys were referring to one of the many 
 strange vegetable productions found in the tropical 
 regions — the pitcher-plant. It grows where the soil 
 is damp, and in the moist climate of Java flourishes 
 vigorously. It has narrow, cylindrical pitchers, 
 
60 A JA UNT THRO UGH JA VA. 
 
 some six or eight inches in length, and of the same 
 light green color as the leaves. The pitcher-plant 
 would not be so remarkable if the mouth was not 
 furnished with a perfect lid, attached by a sort of 
 hinge, and is sometimes open and sometimes closed. 
 The lid does not open until the leaf is entirely- 
 developed. Previous to this the watery liquid is 
 i secreted, and partly fills the pitcher. The belief 
 generally prevailed only a few years since that the 
 leaves secreted fluid in this fashion for the use of 
 travelers in arid regions ; but such is not the case, as 
 the plant never grows in a dry atmosphere. 
 
 Hermon plucked a number of the curious pitcher- 
 plants and tasted the water within. He would have 
 been glad to consider it cool and delicious, but he 
 could not bring himself to swallow any of it. There 
 was just enough vegetable flavor to spoil it for such 
 purposes. He preferred to wait until they came 
 upon the fluid in its natural form. 
 
 " I thought so !" called out Eustace, as the silvery 
 gleam of a sheet of water was discerned among the 
 trees ahead. " I was here two years ago with 
 Jurak, and was sure I could find the lake again." 
 
 The " lake," as he termed it, was of irregular con- 
 tour, and covered perhaps ten or more acres. The 
 shores on every side were composed of dark bowlders 
 and masses of rocks, all of which were of volcanic 
 formation. Hermon did not need to be told that he 
 was looking upon the crater of an extinct volcano — 
 
A JA UNT THRO UGB JA VA. 61 
 
 one which, after vomiting forth its millions of tons 
 of mud, perhaps, and ashes, had subsided and re- 
 mained dead for centuries. Gradually the immense 
 scar left in the side of the earth had been filled dur- 
 ing the rainy season, and, encouraged by the moist- 
 ure without, innumerable little springs had begun 
 bubbling through the flinty floor, until a lake was 
 formed with water mildly cool and quite clear. 
 
 When the young American looked upon the sur- 
 face it was without a wrinkle. If there was any air 
 astir, it did not reach this lonely lake. 
 
 " Are there any fish in it ?" asked Hermon, after 
 they had viewed the body of water for several 
 minutes. 
 
 " Hundreds and thousands of them. If you wiU 
 watch the water closely, you wiU notice them 
 swimming about." 
 
 " "Where did they come from ?" 
 
 " You can answer that as well as I. I suppose 
 there must be some underground communication 
 with the sea through which the fish have found 
 their way to this spot. They are quite small, so far 
 as I can judge, and are not worth fishing for." 
 
 The pool looked so charming that the boys stood 
 a long time on the rocky shore, their eyes wander- 
 ing over the mirror-like surface. In the distance 
 they observed several birds of brilliant plumage 
 flitting back and forth, but they were too far away 
 to be identified. 
 
e^ A u mr mno ms ja va, 
 
 " Let us make a circuit of the lake," said Sermoil, 
 stepping off to the right in the hope of reaching 
 ground that was easier to traverse than the bowlder- 
 like banks. 
 
 " We shaU find the other side very much the same 
 as this. I went around it with Jurak. But we 
 have enough time to do whatever we choose, so 
 come on." 
 
 " Halloo ! here is the path of wild beasts," caUed 
 out Hermon, a rod or two ahead of his friend. 
 
 The path to which he referred resembled some of 
 the buffalo trails seen in the West. It was less than 
 three feet wide, and six or eight inches deep ; where 
 the ground was soft it was still deeper. 
 
 Eustace identified the trail at once. 
 
 " That's good !" exclaimed Hermon. " I'm going 
 for big game only — such as tigers, rhinoceroses, 
 leopards, buffaloes, etc. The next one in order is a 
 rhinoceros." 
 
 " The animal isn't half as dangerous as the tiger, 
 I'U admit ; but because a piece of good fortune gave 
 you the king of the forest, you mustn't rate the 
 rhinoceros too lightly. He is an ugly customer, and 
 I don't know that I ever heard of one being killed 
 by a single bullet. For that matter, the tiger 
 generally takes more, I believe." 
 
 " It looks to me as though this path leads right 
 around the lake. I wonder whether a lot of rhinoc- 
 eroses, when they feel frisky, are not in the habit of 
 
A JA UNT THBO U&E J A Va. 63 
 
 trotting around the water playing tag, just for the 
 fun of the thing?" 
 
 " The creature is too bulky to dance about in that 
 fashion ; the path has been worn here for years. 
 Jurak spoke of it as having been made long before 
 we saw it. Probably the ancestors of these animals 
 were accustomed to take a regular walk to the pool 
 for their supply of water." 
 
 " Ah ! the path makes a turn here and leads to the 
 south — that is, toward that high mountain chain." 
 
 " It passes over that to the dense forest on the 
 other side, where the creatures spend a good deal of 
 their time." 
 
 " My recollection of the rhinoceros is that he lives 
 chiefly in the lowlands." 
 
 " That may be the case ; but in Java our animals 
 don't copy after others, but have ways of their own. 
 In Africa, you know, the rhinoceros has two horns, 
 but those of India and Java have but one. Besides 
 that, our animal isn't so bulky and awkward as the 
 native of India ; he stands higher, and runs faster." 
 
 " It is a wonder to me how such a hogshead on 
 pegs can run at all," said Hermon with a laugh. 
 
 " If you start in a race with one of them you wiH 
 quickly see how they can run. Gordon Gumming 
 says a horse and rider can rarely overtake one of 
 them. His senses of hearing and smell are wonder- 
 fully acute, and he is so big that he isn't afraid of 
 anything. Aa elephant Itas been killed b^ ^ 
 
64 A J A UNT TEBO UOE J A VA. 
 
 rhinoceros, and if one of them could get a fair lunge 
 at such a tiger as you shot last night it would be 
 enough to finish him. But, halloo !" 
 
 A loud, whiffing grunt or snort startled the lads 
 at that moment, as they were moving slowly along 
 the furrowed path, Hermon stUl in advance. While 
 discussing the interesting facts about the extra- 
 ordinary beast they were brought to an abrupt 
 stand-stUl by the noise described. 
 
 A few rods ahead, in the path, stood a. striking 
 specimen of the Javanese rhinoceros — such as was 
 partly described by Eustace Hadley. He was not 
 more than a hundred feet distant, and, having 
 scented the approach of strangers, had stopped 
 short, with his ugly head thrust forward, so that it 
 extended in a straight line from his ponderous 
 shoulders. He formed a curious and repellant 
 figure that would check the most veteran hunter. 
 
 " We must run !" said the elder youth. 
 
 " It seems to me there isn't much use of running 
 when he is so fleet," replied Hermon, keeping his 
 eye on the frightful beast and stealthily raising the 
 hammer of his rifle. " He isn't quick with his eyes, 
 and we have a good chance to dodge him among 
 these trees ; or we can climb one of them. Halloo ! 
 here comes the old feUow !" 
 
 The rhinoceros seemed to have inspected the lads 
 long enough to learn they were intruders, when, 
 with another whiffing snort, he made X'oa them ! 
 
A JA UNT THRO UGH JA VA. 65 
 
 " Come, Hermon, it won't do to wait a second !" 
 called out Eustace, wheeling about and dashing off 
 at full speed. Having warned his cousin, he sup- 
 posed he would lose no time in following him. 
 Both were fleet of foot, and the intention of the 
 elder was to flee until he caught sight of an inviting 
 tree in which both could find refuge. 
 
 But Eustace had taken only a few steps when he 
 was startled by the report of Harmon's rifle. Turn- 
 ing, he saw the sturdy young American standing in 
 the path, and in the act of lowering his weapon, 
 which he had just discharged at the advancing 
 rhinoceros. The latter was charging at a speed that 
 was highly dangerous. 
 
 "Eun, Hermon! Kun, or you'll be too late!" 
 shouted Eustace, terrified beyond measure by the 
 peril of his cousin. 
 
 The latter could not fail to see his situation. At 
 the moment Eustace called to him he whirled and 
 ran. Instead, however, of following the trail, as his 
 cousin had done, he darted off among the trees, 
 which were so open that the rhinoceros was not 
 visibly impeded in the pursuit. 
 
 Inasmuch as Hermon was a good shot, and the 
 intervening space was so slight, it is probable that 
 the bullet struck the beast ; but if so, it inflicted no 
 more harm than if it had flattened itself against the 
 face of a rock. 
 
 Kecognizing the point, too, whence came the 
 
66 -4 J A UNr THRO tTGH JA VA. 
 
 hostile shot, the rhinooeros promptly turned off 
 from the path in hot pursuit of Harmon Hadley, 
 who so underestimated the speed of his pursuer that, 
 while casting about for refuge, he suddenly found 
 the rhinoceros so close upon him that he had no 
 time to escape except by climbing the nearest tree 
 which presented itself. 
 
 The youth bounded forward ; but, do his utmost, 
 he could not equal the swiftness of his ponderous 
 enemy, which would have trampled him to death 
 the next moment had not Eustace dashed across 
 their line of flight and discharged his gun almost in 
 the face of the pursuer. 
 
 The latter did not stop, but flung up his head with 
 an angry sniff, as though he was "struck hard," 
 and, slackening his gait, looked around to learn 
 whence came the shot. Eustace, confident that he 
 would make for him, wheeled and bounded for the 
 nearest tree. In his effort the stock of his rifle 
 caught in a bush and was flung a dozen feet from 
 his grasp ; but he had no time to tarry, and climbed 
 with more speed than ever before, never looking 
 below until he was safe among the limbs. 
 
 Then, when he did so, he found he had made a 
 great mistake, for the rhinoceros had not followed 
 him at aU. After turning his head, as if to identify 
 his second enemy, he continued his pursuit of Her- 
 mon. 
 
 The slight interruption gave the younger hunter 
 
A JA m^T Tnnornn ja va. fi? 
 
 the few seconds that saved him. He saw he had no 
 time to select his refuge, but must take the very 
 first that presented itself. As his rifle would be 
 only an impediment in that critical moment, he 
 flung it aside and scrambled up the nearest tree with 
 the same haste that his cousin was putting forth at 
 that moment. 
 
 In the case of Hermon, he was not a second too 
 soon. He really believed if he had not been very 
 spry in drawing up his legs at the instant he got 
 his arms among the limbs they would have been 
 crushed by the lunge of the maddened rhinoceros, 
 who could reach higher than would be supposed. 
 The fugitive lost no time in climbing beyond the 
 reach of his enemy. 
 
 But Hermon was far from feeling safe, for he was 
 sure that two or three shocks, such as came from the 
 charge of the beast, must overturn the tree. Indeed, 
 he thought it was going over as it was. Certainly 
 its roots were loosened, and had the animal pos- 
 sessed enough intelUgence he could have dislodged 
 his intended victim by continuing his method of 
 attack. 
 
 But the rhinoceros is not bright, and, having 
 made one savage lunge, he stepped back and seemed 
 to inspect the frightened youth above him. As the 
 beast retrograded a brief distance he stepped upon 
 the lock of Hermon's rifle and moved to one side, as 
 though it caused some discomfort. Bending his 
 
68 A J A TINT TBRO XTOB J A VA. 
 
 head, he began rooting it with his single horn, as if 
 he felt a curiosity to learn its nature. 
 
 The tree in which Eustace had perched himself 
 was not more than twenty yards distant — a space so 
 shght that, despite the abundant vegetation, the 
 friends were in sight of each other. Feeling quite 
 sure of their safety, Eustace called across, when the 
 rhinoceros began rooting the gun : 
 
 " Look out, Hermon ! He is going to shoot you !" 
 
 " It does look that way. I'U be glad to have him 
 fool with the gun if he will only let this tree alone. 
 If he bangs his head against it as he did a minute 
 ago, that will be the end of me !" 
 
 " Your tree isn't as large as mine, but he doesn't 
 know enough to push it over, even if he is strong 
 enough." 
 
 " [BTow, if we only had our guns, we could just sit 
 here and bombard him until he surrendered or our 
 ammunition gave out !" 
 
 " It would be a good idea, but neither of us had 
 any time to take our rifles." 
 
 " I don't see why you didn't have all the chance 
 
 you needed." 
 
 " I suppose I did, but, as I didn't think so, it was 
 
 all the same as if I hadn't a second to throw away." 
 " Isn't there any way of getting our guns ?" asked 
 
 Hermon, peering carefully downward at the brute 
 
 beneath. 
 "I have been asking myself the same question. 
 
A JAUNT THRO UGH JAVA. 69 
 
 It seems to me that one of us ought to be able to 
 slip down and get hold of a weapon without being 
 seen by the rhinoceros." 
 
 " Tou teU me he can't see very well, so what's to 
 hinder?" 
 
 " I believe he would hear us if we walked in our 
 stocking feet." 
 
 " Well, when one starts, the other wiU make all 
 the noise he can to divert his attention. If you'U 
 open on him with your revolver, I'U try it." 
 
 "'Eo," said Eustace; "I fired at him a few 
 minutes ago, but he stuck to you. He is more 
 anxious to have you than he is to get me. Draw 
 your pistol and begin popping away at him, while I 
 sneak down after my gun." 
 
 The indications were in favor of this plan, for 
 Eustace's rifle lay nearer to his perch than Hermon's 
 did to his place of refuge, while the %nemy was 
 close in under the younger, and acted as if he meant 
 to stay there until the lad should be compelled to 
 descend. 
 
 In truth, the course of the rhinoceros was 
 singular. He appeared to be roused to a revenge- 
 ful feeling toward Hermon, who fired at him when 
 he was advancing, and thus far he paid no heed to 
 the other young hunter, who sent the second shot. 
 There was reason to believe the latter did some 
 execution, while the former did not. 
 
 The rhinoceros having lurched against the trunk 
 
70 A J A TINT THRO UGH J A VA. 
 
 of the tree, which was no more than eight inches in 
 diameter, yawed, as may be said, until he stepped on 
 the rifle. He nosed that a minute or so, but soon 
 withdrew his attention, and, stepping back several 
 paces more, became stationary. 
 
 "He may grow tired of waiting and go away 
 before long," suggested Harmon, who watched with 
 considerable misgiving the preparation of his cousin 
 to descend the tree. 
 
 " I think he wiU become tired much sooner if I 
 can get hold of my gun," replied Eustace, keeping 
 his eye on the brute. " Are you ready ?" 
 
 " Yes, if you are determined to try it." 
 
 " Of course I am. Pop awa,y, and see whether you 
 can lodge a ball or two in hii: eyes." 
 
A JA UMI TMRO UQB JA VA. U 
 
 CHAPTER YII. 
 
 A TEEACHEB0U8 EEFtTGE. 
 
 IPON'T see why I can't do something with my 
 pistol," thought Hermon Hadley, as he drew 
 h's revolver from his pocket and leveled it at the 
 huge snout of the rhinoceros. " He isn't far away, 
 and if I can send the bullet to the right spot it 
 ought to be equal almost to a rifle-baU." 
 
 The youth was astride a limb some twenty feet 
 from the ground, and his target was so large that it 
 would seem he ought not to miss; still he would 
 have preferred to have the beast a httle closer. A 
 large branch interfered with his aim, and he broke 
 it off and flung it aside. His cousin was ia his field 
 of vision, so that he saw every movement made by 
 his friend. 
 
 Sighting the revolver as best he could at the right 
 eye, Hermon fired two cartridges in quick succes- 
 sion. He was sure that one of them struck and 
 glanced off the single horn of the rhinoceros, while, 
 so far as could be seen, the other missed him alto- 
 gether. 
 
 Eustace, having settled on his course of action, did 
 not hesitate. He was not very high, and it was an 
 
n A u nNT mm ms ja va. 
 
 easy matter to descend. Hermon could not restrain 
 a smile when he observed him sinking on the opposite 
 side of the tree like a person timidly letting himself 
 down into a well. Glancing from the rhinoceros 
 directly toward his friend, he could see his knees 
 and hands as they clasped the trunk, while he peeped 
 first around one side and then around the other ; 
 but he steadily sank lower and lower, until his feet 
 touched the ground. 
 
 When Eustace stepped from behind the tree and 
 began stealing his way toward his gun, lying raid- 
 way between him and the rhinoceros, the situation 
 became delicate and critical. 
 
 " I don't think he will discover him," thought 
 Hermon ; " but there is no teUing which way he wiU 
 turn, and his ears are sharp enough almost to hear a 
 pin faU." 
 
 The rhinoceros was an odd sight as he stood with 
 his immense and ungainly head turned toward the 
 lad jJerched in the tree. He did not seem to be 
 watching him, but held his position motionless, with 
 his blinking eyes fixed upon nothing at all. Now 
 and then Hermon discharged a cartridge; but he 
 might as well have saved his ammunition, for he not 
 only failed to injure him, but did not seem to draw 
 any additional attention to himself by these demon- 
 strations. 
 
 The position of the gun which Eustace was so anx- 
 ious to secure was not as favorable as he could wish ; 
 
A JA UNT THRO UOH JA VA. 73 
 
 but ho felt hopeful of success, for the distance was 
 slight, and at such a time a person is sure to possess 
 much activity. 
 
 Step by step he advanced on tiptoe, his eyes fixed 
 on the enormous creature, while, haLf-stooping, he 
 held his hand extended, ready to grasp the rifle the 
 moment he was near enough. 
 
 When only three steps separated Hermon from 
 his prize he stooped stni lower and moved with 
 greater caution than before. He had gone so far 
 that he was certain of obtaining the weapon, for 
 even if the beast turned upon him he meant to seize 
 it before fleeing. 
 
 The rhinoceros, from some cause or other, did 
 move his head, and caught sight of the crouching 
 figure. Instantly he charged toward him. 
 
 " Quick !" shouted the alarmed Hermon, who let 
 fly, with the remaining charges in his pistol, at the 
 side and hind-quarters of the beast. 
 
 But Eustace had observed the preliminary -move- 
 ment of the rhinoceros, and lost not a second. His 
 right hand shot forward, and snatching up his gun 
 he darted among the trees, determined to cling fast 
 to the weapon ; but he was disappointed after all. 
 The rifle was not so valuable as his own life, and 
 before he had run twenty steps he dropped it and 
 leaped into the branches of another tree, being 
 barely able to scramble up in time to save himself. 
 
 " My gracious !" he gasped, looking down at the 
 
74 J- J-A UNT TH&O USE J A VA. 
 
 brute. " That campaign of mine wasn't much, of a 
 success." 
 
 He was somewhat further removed from Hermon, 
 but by leaning forward and parting the branches he 
 was able to catch sight of his companion. 
 
 " Hermon," said he, " I made a pretty good run 
 for it, but he was too fast for me. What did you 
 think of the race ?" 
 
 To his astonishment Hermon made no answer. 
 He saw him sitting on the limb, holding on with 
 botli hands and seemingly looking at something on 
 the ground. Eustace called several times, but was 
 alarmed to receive no reply. Hermon seemed 
 stricken with deafness. 
 
 " "What can be the matter ?" thought the elder, 
 forgetting for the moment the brute in his anxiety 
 for his friend. 
 
 He had hardly asked himself the question when, 
 to his horror, Hermon suddenly rolled to one side 
 and tumbled to the ground, striking on his side, 
 where he lay as if dead. 
 
 The heart of Eustace almost stopped beating. 
 He sat staring at the motionless figure, and was on 
 the point of leaping from his perch and running to 
 his help. But he knew that if he did so he not only 
 would not help matters, but would assuredly be 
 trampled to death himself. 
 
 It seemed remarkable that the rhinoceros had not 
 sew the fall of the other ; but for the present he 
 
A JA UNT THRO UGH J A VA. % 
 
 acted as though there was but a single person in the 
 world, and he was the enemy in the tree just above 
 him. 
 
 Eustace was not only terrified but dumfounded 
 by the extraordinary accident that had befallen his 
 companion. He was unable to account for it. Had 
 they been in a wild country, he would have believed 
 he had been pierced J3y the poisoned arrow of some 
 concealed savage in the bush ; but that was impos- 
 sible, though some of the Javanese use such weapons 
 in hunting certain species of game. 
 
 Gradually the hope took shape that his friend was 
 not dead, but had been smitten by some sudden ill- 
 ness, which would soon pass away. When he 
 detected a slight movement of one of his feet 
 Eustace was relieved, but quickly gave way to alarm 
 as he reflected again upon the danger to which Her- 
 mon was exposed from the rhinoceros. The former, 
 however, was quickly reminded of his own peril by 
 the action of the ponderous brute. Eamming his 
 head against the tree, he began rooting it with his 
 horn. He tore off the bark and gashed the wood 
 so vigorously that he was sure to bring the boy to 
 the ground if he continued his work only a few 
 minutes longer. 
 
 But the rhinoceros kept up his reputation for 
 doing unexpected things by abruptly ceasing w^hen 
 it may be said he was on the point of bagging his 
 
 ga 
 
 me. He snuffed the air as though he scented 
 
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76 A J A UNT THRO UGH JA FA. 
 
 danger, and then, swinging his fore-quarters around, 
 moved off at an easy pace toward the dseply-worn 
 trail from which he had ventured in his pursuit of 
 the boys. 
 
 This course took him so close to where Hermon 
 lay that Eustace held his breath, fearing that he was 
 aiming for the lad ; but he lumbered on, and a few 
 minutes later vanished from sight. 
 
 Without waiting, Eustace caught up his gun and 
 ran to his prosti-ate friend. At the moment, he 
 reached him, Hermon sat up and looked around in a 
 dazed way. His face, generally full of color, was as 
 white as a sheet. 
 
 " You are sick !" exclaimed Eustace. 
 
 " Sick !" feebly repeated Hermon. " I was never 
 so iU in my life! Can you get me a swallow of 
 water?" 
 
 Eustace ran in the direction of the lake, breaking 
 off a pitcher-plant on the way. He emptied this of 
 its fluid, carefully fiUed it with water, and hastened 
 back to Hermon, who had managed to get upon his 
 feet and walk a few paces, when he was forced to 
 sit down on a bowlder of sandstone. 
 
 He took several swallows of the cool fluid, and 
 immediately felt better. He was something like his 
 bright self when he smiled, looked around, and 
 asked : 
 
 " "What has become of that rhinoceros ?" 
 
 "Pe is gone. I don't think there is anything 
 
A JA UNT THRO UGH JA VA. 'J'7 
 
 more to fear from him. But tell me what this 
 means, Hermon?" 
 
 "That's what I should like to know. It's the 
 strangest thing I ever heard of. I broke a Umb in 
 front of me, so as to gain a better view of you while 
 shooting. Just after that I noticed the most sicken- 
 ing odor you can imagine. I never knew anything 
 like it, and the hand with which I broke off the 
 branch was inflamed and itched terribly. It is 
 nearly aU gone now, but you can see it yet," he 
 added, holding up his left hand, which was red and 
 pimpled, as though violently poisoned. 
 
 " I' couldn't tell what to make of it," he continued. 
 " I hoped I would be able to overcome it, but the 
 first thing I knew my head began to swim, and just 
 as I heard your words in my ears, without being 
 able to reply, over I went. If the rhinoceros had 
 been below at that time he would have had me sure. 
 What's the matter?" 
 
 Eustace Hadley ran a few intervening paces, and 
 made a critical examination of the tree from which 
 his cousin had fallen. The trunk was less than 
 eight inches in diameter at the largest part (as has 
 been stated before), and there were no hmbs until a 
 point about ten feet from the ground was reached. 
 Then they branched out regularly, tapering sym- 
 metrically toward the top, so that the upper portion 
 of th« tree was of the shape of a bee-hive. It was 
 covered with green leaves, and the piece ol loranch 
 
78 A JA UNT THRO UGH J A \ 'A. 
 
 which Hermon had flung to the ground exuded a 
 resinous sap whose odor Eustace noticed before pick- 
 ing it up. He gave it a slight snitf, and then, with 
 a gesture of disgust, flung it from him. 
 
 "Hermon," said he, turning about and walking 
 toward his cousin, " I understand why you became 
 so ill." 
 
 "Why was it?" 
 
 "That," pointing to the limbs from which the 
 other had fallen, " is the wpas-tree .'" 
 
 " What !" exclaimed Hermon, forgetting his weak- 
 ness. " Let us hurry away !" 
 
 " What for ?" asked the elder, with a smile, 
 though he took care to walk a few yards further off. 
 " It is poisonous, but not so poisonous as you think. 
 If it was, where would you be ?" 
 
 Keassured by the words of Eustace, Hermon sat 
 down nearer the shore of the lake. He was soon 
 almost as well as before ; and, having recovered his 
 gun and found it unharmed, he reloaded it, and felt 
 as though he would like to have the rhinoceros 
 return. 
 
 " The upas-tree !" he repeated wonderingly to him- 
 self. " Who has not heard of that ? I remember 
 reading in one of our school-books an account of the 
 upas-tree of Java which fairly made my hair 
 rise." 
 
 " That all came from a surgeion named Foersoh, 
 vtho was in the eiupioy of the Dutch Ea,stl JDadia 
 
A JA UNT TBna UGH ja ta. t^ 
 
 Company nearly a hundred years ago. He said it 
 destroyed life within a radius of ten or twelve nules, 
 and that out of ten persons who approached it only 
 one lived to return. We have his account at home, 
 where he tells how many minutes a fowl, a dog, and 
 other creatures, lived after being lowered in the 
 valley where one of the trees was growing." 
 
 " But he surely had cause for his stories ?" 
 
 "Yes; that can't be denied; but in 1810 Les- 
 chenault disproved the statements of the Dutch sur- 
 geon. You see, the upas grows among other trees. 
 Lizards and wild animals do not avoid it, but there 
 is no use of denying that it is very poisonous. The 
 Javanese have used the exudations for years with 
 which to poison their arrows. Had you not broken 
 off that branch, so as to come in contact with the 
 juice, and so as to get the odor directly in your 
 nostrils, you would never have known you escaped 
 from a rhinoceros by climbing an upas-tree." 
 
 " I think I have read that it belongs to the bread- 
 fruit family." 
 
 " Yes, and botanists now unite it with the mul- 
 berry family. Like a great many wonderful things 
 of which you hear and read, it doesn't prove near as 
 wonderful when you come to investigate it." 
 
 " There's one thing quite certain," said Hermon 
 with a laugh. " I don't care how close a rhinoceros 
 is upon my heels, I'll keep on running till I find 
 ^mething better than a upas-tree for a refuge. 
 
80 A JA UNT TSno tTGB JA VA. 
 
 Don't you remember the lines of Fitz-Greene Hal- 
 leek, in his address to the Indian Chief, Ked 
 Jacket ? 
 
 That in thy Teins there Sows a fountain 
 Deadlier than that which bathes the upas-tree 1" 
 
A JA UJSTT IMUU UQM JA VA. 81 
 
 CHAPTER ym. 
 
 TS THE JAVAN FOEE8T. 
 
 A SOFT rustling of the leaves caused the boys 
 to turn their heads. Tweak, their dog, came 
 walking forth with head erect and gazing right and 
 left, as if to say he was very sorry his engagements 
 had kept him away when they were in such danger 
 from the rhinoceros. But for that, he would have 
 driven oflf the beast. 
 
 "I believe Tweak is a coward," said Hermon. 
 "He never showed himself when the tiger was 
 prowling around Jurak's hut; and now, when the 
 rhinoceros is beyond sight, he comes out of the 
 woods." 
 
 " Is that dog cowardly or wise which keeps out of 
 the way of a tiger or rhinoceros ?" 
 
 " Wise, if he understood the situation ; but a brave 
 dog doesn't stop to count the cost when danger 
 threatens his master. If he had shown himself, 
 when the rhinoceros had us treed, as a guaranty of 
 his good faith, I would have had a much better 
 opinion of him. Tweak, ain't you ashamed of your- 
 self?" 
 
 The canine hung his head as if conscious he had 
 
82 A JA UNT THRO UGH J A VA . 
 
 done something not very creditable, and when 
 Eustace added some sharp words of reproof he 
 turned about and slunk away with his tail and head 
 drooping. 
 
 " "Well, Eustace, this is such a charming day, and 
 there is so much of the afternoon before us, I don't 
 suppose you want to go into camp ?" 
 
 " No ; that would be only a waste of time. We 
 will push a little further to the mountain ridge 
 yonder, over which we must pass, and to-morrow we 
 wiU be on the southern water-shed of Java; then we 
 shall not have very far to go before reaching the 
 Sacred Mountain, and what are the most wonderful 
 ruins in the whole world." 
 
 ""What are they called?" asked the astonished 
 Hermon. 
 
 "The great temple of Bara-Budur is the most 
 marvelous. It is in the province of Kadu ; but we 
 expect to see more than that." 
 
 "What is there so amazing about Bara-Bu- 
 dm- r 
 
 " Its size, and the labor that must have been 
 spent on it. It stands on a small hill, and has a 
 central dome and seven ranges of terraced walls 
 covering the hill, and forming open galleries each 
 below the other, and communicating by steps and 
 gate-ways. The dome in the center is fifty feet in 
 diameter, and around it is a triple circle of seventy- 
 two towers. The whole building is six huadred and 
 
A J A UNT THRO UGH JA VA. 83 
 
 twenty feet square and more than a hundred feet 
 high." 
 
 " Are there any ornaments about the structure ?" 
 
 " In the terrace walls are niches containing cross- 
 legged figures larger than life." 
 
 " How many ?" 
 
 " About four hundred, and both sides of all the ter- 
 race walls are covered with bas-reliefs, overflowing 
 with figures, and carved in hard stone ; you can see, 
 therefore, that they occupy an extent of about three 
 miles in length. Wallace, the traveler, says that 
 the amount of human labor and skill expended on 
 the Pyramids of Egypt sinks into insignificance 
 when compared with that required to complete the 
 sculptured hill-temple in Java." 
 
 "While this conversation was passing between the 
 cousins, they were walking leisurely in a southern 
 direction. As there was nothing of special interest 
 about the lake, they turned their backs on it, and it 
 was soon left out of sight. The ascent was gradual, 
 but the ground at times was so broken by bowlders 
 and rocks that numerous detours were necessary, and 
 the progress was not only slow but tiresome. 
 
 The vegetable growth was of tropical luxuriance, 
 as it must of necessity be where it grows up to the 
 very rim of the craters of the various volcanoes. 
 More than once they observed the tall, symmetrical 
 forms of the upas-trees ; and Hermon, recalling the 
 uwhy strange stories he had read and heard of thera, 
 
o4 A J A UNT TEBO UOH J A VA . 
 
 and his own experience, often stopped and surveyed 
 them with great interest. 
 
 Except for the masses of stone, they would have 
 little difficulty in traveling through the Javan 
 forest. The trees, although numerous, did not attain 
 a very large size. In some places the vines and 
 shrubbery were dense, but not enough to interfere 
 with any one passing between the trees. 
 
 Open spaces, where the graceful silvery grass was 
 growing, were not infrequent, while the fruits and 
 birds were a continual source of delight. 
 
 Parrots and paroquets, some of them as beautiful 
 and almost as varied in their colors as the rainbow, 
 flitted among the upper branches, and occasionally 
 sat as motionless and solemn as owls, and looked 
 down on the two passing beneath. "When they in- 
 dulged in their screeches they were as discordant as 
 the noise made in filing a saw. The Java sparrows 
 are as great nuisances in that country as their En- 
 glish cousins have become in the United States. 
 They are always quarreling, and in some parts of 
 the country drive away sleep for hours before day- 
 light. They seem to be eternally engaged in 
 wrangling or eating. 
 
 Other birds of variegated plumage were almost 
 continually in sight, and Hermon was struck by the 
 sight of several pea-fowl which ducked their heads 
 and furtively watched the lads, who started them 
 running along the ground or sailing away from the 
 
A J A rorr teeo ms ja ta. §5 
 
 branches on which they were perched. This was 
 done by the boys shouting at them and swinging 
 their hats above their heads. 
 
 The peacock is certainly one of the most wonder- 
 ful birds in the way of plumage (not even excepting 
 the Bird of Paradise) that is found on the globe. It 
 seems as if nature had set out to show what marvels 
 she can perform in the way of decorating one of her 
 creations. 
 
 "There," said Hermon, pausing a moment to 
 pluck from a tree a fruit the size of a small orange, 
 " is the most delicious thing in the whole world. I 
 didn't particularly fancy it at first, but I am ready 
 now to admit that it is all the Javanese claim 
 for it." 
 
 The fruit to which he alluded is known in the 
 East Indies as the mangosteen. It has a thick rind, 
 something like the outside shell of a walnut, but 
 within is a pulpy kernel which is of the most 
 delicious flavor, and fairly melts away in one's 
 mouth. 
 
 " Nearly everybody, says as you do," replied 
 Eustace, who also picked one and began removing 
 the rind ; " but when I was in St. Louis, Philadel- 
 phia and New York, I ate some apples and pears 
 which to my taste are better than the mangosteen. 
 If there is anything which grows that can beat a 
 dead-ripe bell-flower apple or a juicy Bartlett pear, 
 why I have never tasted it." 
 
86 A Ja CJStT Who Itoa J A VA. 
 
 " I don't think there can be much improvement on 
 them. Haven't you any apples in Java ?" 
 
 " No apples grow in the East Indies. Further up 
 in the mountains we may come across peaches and 
 Chinese pears, while you have seen plenty of the 
 ' arnarind-trees. Of course in the tropical countries 
 ve expect a greater variety of fruits, but there are 
 .several which grow in America that I wouldn't give 
 for all of them. Gracious .'" 
 
 Eustace was several steps in advance and to one 
 side of his cousin when he uttered this exclamation 
 and bounded backward. The startled Hermon saw 
 what caused his fright. A serpent, nearly four feet 
 in length, lay coiled directly in front of the other, 
 evidently waiting till he came within strildng 
 distance. The serpent was sUm and mottled on its 
 belly, with red and greenish patches on its back. 
 Faint-colored rings were around its tiny, glistening 
 eyes, so that in that respect it suggested the " spec- 
 tacled" cobra of India. Its crimson tongue was 
 darting in and out, and its small head, elevated 
 about a foot from the coil, and thrown back so that 
 it resembled the neck of a swan, would have shot 
 forward like a flash of light the instant its victim 
 was close enough to make the blow a sure one. 
 
 There could be no doubt of its venomous nature. 
 It was one of the most dangerous of the score of 
 deadly serpents found in Java. 
 
 Without either of the boys speaking, Eustace 
 
A JA UNT TURO UGH J A 7 A. 87 
 
 brought his rifle to his shoulder and took careful 
 aim at the head of the reptile, which was not 
 twenty feet distant. The hideous poison-fountain 
 remained motionless, while the beady eyes gleamed 
 like points of flame. 
 
 "With the sharp crack of the rifle the head of the 
 snake vanished as though it had never been. 
 Eustace had shot it off and left the body, which 
 began whipping the earth and turning over and over 
 with bewildering rapidity, darting hither and 
 thither, until it shortly settled to rest. 
 
88 A. JA U^'T TlIllO UGH JA VA. 
 
 CHAPTEK IX. 
 
 THE CAMP-FIEE. 
 
 THAT'S the worst of these tropical countries," 
 said Hermon, when they were moving forward 
 again. "With all their beautiful flowers, fruits, 
 birds and vegetation, they abound with serpents. 
 Ugh !" he muttered with a shudder ; " if there's one 
 object in the world that I hate above all others it is 
 a snake." 
 
 "But I suppose they serve their purposes like 
 everything else." 
 
 " No doubt ; and, according to my thinking, the 
 best use they can be put to is to kiU them. If I 
 could have my way I never would allow a single one 
 to be shown in the museums or anywhere else. I 
 believe nearly everybody is born with a loathing of 
 aU kinds of snakes." 
 
 Without entering upon any argument (for, to teU 
 the truth, Eustace shared the prejudice of his cousin, 
 as you and I do), the elder whistled for their dog 
 Tweak. There really was little reason to do so, for 
 at that instant he came running at full speed among 
 the trees toward them, giving expressions to an 
 
A J A UNT THBO UGH JA YA. 89 
 
 occasional bark of terror, and looking very much in 
 earnest in his flight. 
 
 "There's some animal chasing Tweak," said the 
 astonished Hermon, stopping short and gazing in 
 that direction. 
 
 " Not one, but a number of them. They're wild 
 hogs!" 
 
 A half-dozen swine, dark-colored, slim, bony, and 
 fleet of foot, were galloping hard after the terrified 
 Ihound, and emitting grunts of anger as they clung 
 pretty close to his heels. In nosing through the 
 forest he had roused some of them, who set upon 
 him with such vigor that he was put to instant 
 flight. 
 
 Now I am quite sure you know that the wild boar 
 is one of the most formidable animals known, and, 
 like the royal Bengal tiger, he is afraid of no living 
 creature. He can run like a deer, and his amazing 
 strength enables him easily to rip up any animal he 
 can reach. 
 
 The wild pigs which were chasing Tweak were 
 far from being the equal of the famous wild boar of 
 Germany, but they possessed some of his characteris- 
 tics, one of which is their undaunted courage. 
 
 The dog, finding his pursuers did not leave him, 
 ran straight to Eustace for protection. Darting 
 behind his master, he crouched down and whined 
 with fear. This, of necessity, brought the young 
 hunters to the fore. 
 
00 A JA UITT TBRO TTOff JA VA. 
 
 The leading hog stopped short, looked up at the 
 lad, who had raised his gun. to his shoulder, and 
 with an angry grunt he lowered his head again like 
 a bull about to charge and made for him. His 
 tusks were several inches long, and he could have 
 rent the youth with a single blow had the oppor- 
 tunity been given. 
 
 But Eustace fired at once, and stretched the brave 
 hog on the ground before he took three steps. The 
 second member of the Sus family was laid low an 
 instant later by Hermon, and the boys opened on 
 them with their revolvers. There were but three of 
 the wild hogs left, and they were demoralized by 
 the vigor of the assault. They stood with tlieir 
 snouts thrown up, grunting and looking about, as if 
 suspicious that there was a mistake somewhere. In 
 a moment one of them squealed piteously, and 
 'Iropping on his side and kicking the air with great 
 I'igor, departed this life. Thereupon the othej's 
 broke and scampered off in the woods at the top of 
 their speed. 
 
 The moment they started Tweak dashed, attez 
 them, barking furiousiy, as if challenging thorn to 
 stand their ground and fight. He was heard for 
 several minutes after all disappeared, Ijut (Soon came 
 back, treading the ground with 'iiii, air of a con 
 iiic-or. 
 
 " That dog id the greatest :fraud in Java !" ex- 
 claimed Hermon. disgusted with the cowardice h» 
 
A J A UNT TERO VQU J A VA. 91 
 
 had shown from the beginning. "I can't under- 
 stand why you brought him along or why you con- 
 sent to own him!" 
 
 " I mast say he hasn't shown up very well so far " 
 said Eustace with a laugh. "Eut wait until we are 
 through this jaunt, and you may change your 
 opinion." 
 
 Hermon shook his head. 
 
 " He's too far gone to reform. I consider him a 
 miserable cur, hardly worth ammunition to shoot 
 him ; but he is yours, and I'll let him alone out of 
 regard for his friend." 
 
 Eustace laughed and begged his cousin to suspend 
 his opinion until later on. 
 
 One thing caused growing uneasiness. Several 
 times during the afternoon they caught sight of 
 monkeys swinging among the limbs, chattering and 
 showing much interest in them. Although there is 
 little if any diiference in the appearance of these 
 animals, the boys were able to identify a number, 
 and there could be no doubt that the leaders, as they 
 may be called, were following the boys. 
 
 They were first noticed when the cousins left the 
 volcanic lake, as it may be called, and had been 
 scarcely out of sight since. The largest and oldest 
 monkey was curiously marked about the shoulders 
 with some patches of gray, so there could be no mis- 
 taking Mm. 
 
 When night came, and the lads kindled a fire in 
 
93 A JA UNT THBO UOH JA VA. 
 
 the depths of the forest, there were fully fifty 
 monkeys gathered among the tree-branches around 
 them. They were swinging back and forth, running 
 up and down and among the limbs, and indulging in 
 all the comical antics natural to the creatures. 
 Hermon stood with his back to the camp-fire, watch- 
 ing them as well as he could by the reflection of the 
 blaze behind him. Frequently his merry laugh rang 
 through the forest arches ; for what boy can study 
 the whimsical performances of a lot of monkeys 
 without giving away to mirth ? 
 
 But his cousin was thoughtful, evidently sharing 
 the feelings of Tweak, who crouched at his feet, his 
 instinct teaching him there was danger in the air. 
 
 " I teU you, Hermon," said he, as he stood close by 
 his side, " we're in more peril than we have been 
 since we left home." 
 
 " What do you mean ?" asked his astonished 
 cousin. 
 
 " Those monkeys are getting ready to attack us. 
 That gray-back and the largest and oldest of the 
 rest of the crowd have been following- us ever since 
 we left the lake. They have called in others, tiU 
 you see what a gang they have got together. Such 
 a force of monkeys have driven out a strong force 
 of hunters more than once, and it isn't likely they 
 will have much trouble with us." 
 
 "Why do they seek to disturb us, when we 
 haven't molested them 2" 
 
A JA UNT TSEO WE J A F4. 83 
 
 " They seem to get the idea that we are invading 
 their homes, and self-defense requires them to slay 
 us." 
 
 " "Well, if they do, we shall have to open on them 
 with rifle and revolver, as we did with the wild 
 hogs." 
 
 Eustace shook his head. 
 
 "You can't scare them off in that way. Look 
 there !" 
 
 " The gray-backed monkey, as he was called, had 
 swung down from his perch, and with three others 
 as large and formidable as himself was cautiously 
 advancing toward the boys. He was grimacing and 
 chattering, and the odd twitching of his thin, black 
 hps showed iis yellow teeth, while his black eyes 
 flashed with wrath. 
 
 " They mean to attack us," said Eustace. " Hold 
 your gun ready ; I'll drop the second one, and you 
 shoot the gray-back that's in front." 
 
94 A JA UNT TimO VGU J A VA. 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 A PEEILOUS SITTTATION. 
 
 THE SITUATIOlSr of Eustace and Hermon was 
 critical indeed. The monkeys were on every 
 side, and beyond question were making ready to 
 assail them. It looked as if the major part were 
 timid about doing so, and the large gray-back and 
 his three equally formidable companions were taking 
 the lead. 
 
 The activity and superior intelligence of the 
 creatures made them the most dangerous of foes. 
 The leaders could not fail to understand their 
 advantage, and knew how to use it. 
 
 There seemed but the one thing for the boys to 
 do. If the monkeys assaulted them, they would 
 defend themselves as best they could. There was 
 some ground to hope that if the leaders were driven 
 off the rest would not molest the boys. 
 
 " Don't fire tin you have to," said Eustace, nar- 
 rowly watching the mischievous animals. "Those 
 four are searching for a chance to take us unawares." 
 
 "I'll- let firelight through him!" exclaimed Her- 
 mon, holding his rifle ready. " He's the captain of 
 
A JA UNT THRO UOH J A VA. 0;« 
 
 the gang, and deserves hanging. Let me attend to 
 his case." 
 
 Tweak had been terrified more than once since 
 this jaunt began, but he now lost his senses entirely. 
 He crouched whining at the feet of his master, until 
 his terror became so excessive, on seeing the creat- 
 ures steadily advancing, that he sprang directly at 
 the gray- back, uttering a sharp bark. The instant 
 he landed in front of the creature he attempted to 
 leap backward, but was too late. The oddly-marked 
 monkey with wonderful dexterity caught him in his 
 arms as if he were a baby, and all three scampered 
 off in the darkness. 
 
 " Good !" laughed Hermon. " They knew all the 
 time what a valuaMe canine Tweak is, and they 
 have been awaiting a chance to steal him. Now 
 that they've got him, they're satisfied." 
 
 " And I shall be more than satisfied if such is the 
 case," said Eustace, hoping rather than believing 
 that his cousin might be right in his odd theory. 
 " It's a sad affliction, of course, to lose so valuable a 
 prize, but it is buying our fives with a smaU price if 
 such proves to be the case." 
 
 "Yes; I don't see how the price could be any 
 less." 
 
 But it was no time for jesting. They Hstened and 
 looked in every direction. 
 
 "When the quartet of larger and braver monkeys 
 were stealthily advancing from the woods tb^ others; 
 
^6 A J A UNT THRO UGE JA VA. 
 
 were emboldened by the sight, and began also creep- 
 ing toward the young hunters, standing at bay by 
 the camp-fire. Most of them, however, were among 
 the branches, ready to pounce down on the boys 
 whenever their courage was sufficient. 
 
 But when the four darted back in the gloom, one 
 of them carrying the dog, the others did the same, 
 so that for a brief time thereafter nothing was seen 
 of the animals, though their chattering and peculiar 
 cries were louder than ever. 
 
 "I wonder whether they will be satisfied with 
 Tweak?" was the inquiring remark of Hermon, 
 who all the time was watching all sides. " "What 
 will they do with him ?" 
 
 "How can I tell?" asked Eustace, by way of 
 reply. " No doubt they will put him to death ; but 
 monkeys are such peculiar creatures they are likely 
 to have considerable fun before they dispose of 
 him." 
 
 " Don't you think that the capture of Tweak will 
 give them more courage, and lead them to attack 
 us?" 
 
 " I shouldn't wonder, though it looked to me as if 
 they would have done so in a very short time with- 
 out any regard for him." 
 
 " But those four were the only ones that dared 
 lead; but when the attack once opens the others 
 wiU join in and what can we do against so many of 
 them?" 
 
A JA UNT TBRO UGS JA YA. 9? 
 
 "Can't we make some use of the fire?" asked 
 Hermon ; " you know that all animals are afraid of 
 fire !" 
 
 " I have been thinking of that ; but if we keep 
 them off until morning they will have no fear of it 
 then." 
 
 " If I had known these pests had such an objec- 
 tion to us I would have hunted for some route " 
 
 Hermon was cut short in his speech by something 
 violently falling upon him from above. At first he 
 thought the heavy branch of a tree had struck him, 
 but it was the hound Tweak, which came down with 
 a thump that knocked the breath for a moment 
 from the youth's body and narrowly missed throw- 
 ing him into the fire. 
 
 In fact it hurt Hermon much more than it did the 
 dog. He roUed off the lad's shoulders, and alight- 
 ing on his feet, uttered a whine of fear and crouched 
 again by his young master. A glance at the canine 
 showed that he had not been injured during his brief 
 captivity among the monkeys. One of them had 
 carefully climbed out among the limbs, until directly 
 over Hermon, when he dropped the dog on him. 
 
 Instantly the woods echoed with the cries of de- 
 light on the part of the creatures, and Eustace 
 would have broken into uproarious laughter but for 
 the fact that he saw the serious side of the situation. 
 He caught sight of one of the leaders in a squat- 
 ting position, a dozen feet behind Hermon, and 
 
08 A J A VKT mnovGtr ja va. 
 
 making ready to leap upon him. At the moment 
 Eustace raised his gun the monkey started with in- 
 credible swiftness toward the lad, who, having 
 partly turned, failed to see him, but was looking at 
 something directly to the rear of his cousin. 
 
 Before the treacherous monkey could reach his 
 enemy Eustace sent a buUet clean through his skuU, 
 and he fell as dead as a " door-naiL" 
 
 " Look out, Hermon " 
 
 But the elder observed that his companion had 
 his rifle leveled at something behind his position, and 
 he glanced furtively over his shoulder at the instant 
 the sharp crack sounded through the woods. 
 
 Eustaxje was in time to catch sight of the huge 
 gray-back that had attempted to play precisely the 
 same trick on him when he was effectively checked 
 by the bullet from the well-aimed gun of Hermon. 
 Fortunately the boys did the very best thing pos- 
 sible. The sound of Hermon's gun was yet in the 
 air when, dropping their rifles, the two whipped out 
 their revolvers and began blazing away at the 
 nearest animals. 
 
 Some of these were so close that they were 
 struck ; but, as was to be expected, the majority of 
 shots went wide of the mark. The pistols were 
 quickly emptied, and then the guns were snatched 
 up again. Tou know how speedily a breech-loader 
 can be reloaded, and in a twinkling, as it seemed, 
 the sharker crack of the guns resounded among the 
 
:Mi^ 
 
 
 ■■vir^ 
 
 
 Hm mooter dropped the dog on Hermon Hadley's heodL 
 
100 ^ JA UNT THRO tfOH JA YA. 
 
 trees. When they were charged a second time, and 
 the youths glanced about for targets, not one was to 
 be seen. 
 
 It is impossible to picture the panic created by 
 the vigorous resistance of the boys. It cannot be 
 doubted they were in the most imminent peril, for a 
 combined and intelligent assault by the horde of 
 monkeys could not have been successfully resisted. 
 The young hunters would have killed a number of 
 their assailants, but when their weapons were 
 emptied of their charges they would have been 
 defenceless. 
 
 As I have shown, the huge, spotted-back monkey 
 and three others were the directors in the campaign. 
 They were at the head, and they led the charge 
 with the expectation that the rest would promptly 
 follow up the attack, as they would surely have 
 done ; but the more timid animals, while looking for 
 a success on the part of their ofiBlcers, as they may 
 be called, saw them shot to death with a quickness 
 that took away the breath of the spectators. 
 
 WhUe they were staring stupefied, the fatal bullets 
 began whistling among them, and several monkeys, 
 with frantic squeals, doubled up like jack-knives and 
 took a header from the limbs on which they were 
 perched. The others scrambled off in the darkness, 
 terrified to distraction. Thus it was that when the 
 boys with loaded guns in hand glanced around, they 
 failed to catch a glimpse of a single monkey. They 
 
J. JAUNT THRO UQE JA VA. 101 
 
 had not only retreated, but had become absolutely 
 quiet. The stillness which reigned through the 
 woods was profound. 
 
 "I do believe they are all gone," said Hermon, 
 after he had turned completely around, with his eyes 
 searching the limbs and the ground so far as the 
 glow from the fire would permit. Eustace had gone 
 through the same movement, each ready to dis- 
 charge his rifle the instant a target was seen. 
 
 " That is true ; but won't they come back again ?" 
 
 " You can answer that question better than I, for 
 you have seen more of the simiadcB family, and 
 know more of their habits." 
 
 " As I told you a few minutes ago, there's nothing 
 which one or two men in the woods dread more than 
 a troop of combative monkeys. They are sure to be 
 mischievous, and will play all sorts of tricks. Some- 
 times they become angry without any cause, and 
 pester the hunters until they are compelled to re- 
 treat to save their lives. If the men kiU one or two 
 of the creatures the others become enraged, and an 
 overwhelming attack is almost certain to follow. 
 
 " Why wasn't it so in our case ?" 
 
 " We did up the thing too thoroughly. If we had 
 slain but a single monkey, the rest would have been 
 at us in a twinkling ; but we opened on them in a 
 style which has thoroughly scared aU the others." 
 
 " But wiU they stay so ?" 
 
 " I think we are safe, if we are vigilant. They 
 
103 A J A UNT THRO UQH JA VA, 
 
 will not disturb us for a considerable time to come 
 but a monkey is revengeful, and after a time some 
 of the bolder will prowl around to see whether there 
 isn't a chance to do us injury. It will take them a 
 considerable while to get up enough courage, but if 
 we should go to sleep they wouldn't hesitate long in 
 attacking us." 
 
 " Go to sleep ?" repeated Hermon. " I don't feel 
 as though I could sleep a wink for a week." 
 
 " Because you feel so now is no reason to believe 
 you will feel so an hour or two later." 
 
 Hermon shook his head. 
 
 " I have had too good a shaking up to sleep any 
 between now and daylight. I never knew how 
 heavy Tweak was until he dropped on my head and 
 shoulders. It seemed to me, when he struck, that 
 he weighed a ton ! My shoulders stiU ache. "What 
 an idea!" exclaimed Hermon with a laugh, as he 
 rubbed one shoulder and looked down at the dog, 
 which was stretched out with his nose between his 
 paws, as if all danger was over. 
 
 " The monkeys are original in their ideas. I once 
 heard a clergyman say that he has stood by a cage 
 of them for hours and enjoyed himself as he could 
 nowhere else in watching their comical tricks. I 
 never knew of one of the creatures dropping a dog 
 on the head of a person, but I am quite sure it was 
 done many a time, if such a good chance as this was 
 given." 
 
A JA rorr rsno ms jta ta. 103 
 
 " We must keep the fire going," remarked Her- 
 mon ; " and we can't do that without fuel." 
 
 When the cousins went into camp for the night 
 they gathered enough wood to last for an hour or 
 two. Where wood was all around them it was not 
 to be supposed there could be any difficulty in col- 
 lecting aU they wanted ; nor, indeed, was there any 
 such trouble, but the boys felt much misgiving on 
 account of the monkeys. 
 
 " We won't have to go far to get the wood we 
 want," said Hermon, " and I'U do it if you guard 
 me with your gun." 
 
 As this was evidently the wisest course, it was 
 adopted. The fire was stirred so that the circle of 
 illumination was greatly widened. As the gloomy 
 depths were Ut up the boys caught a glimpse of 
 several monkeys among the limbs, but they skurried 
 out of sight. This proved what had been suspected. 
 The resentful creatures were on the watch, and were 
 sure to seize the first occasion that presented itself. 
 
 Hermon left his gun behind, as it was likely to be 
 an incumbrance while gathering wood, and would be 
 more useful at the command of Eustace, who was a 
 quick and good shot. 
 
 The young American could not find much dead 
 and decayed wood, which was necessary when he 
 started the camp-fire, and reaUy there was no need 
 of it. The coals were so alive and glowing that they 
 took hold of and consumed that which was green. 
 
104 4 J-A. UNT THMO UGH J A VA. 
 
 CHAPTEE XI. 
 
 OATHEEING FUEL TTNDEE DIFFIOULTIBS. 
 
 IT TOOK genuine courage for the young Ameri- 
 can to venture out in the gloom after wood 
 when he was certain that more than one fierce ani- 
 mal was eagerly awaiting a chance to pounce upon 
 him. Hermon did not mean to go beyond the circle 
 of illumination, and he knew Eustace was covering 
 him as best he could. 
 
 "While cutting and breaking off limbs, he could 
 hear the rustle, now and then, as the monkeys 
 moved stealthily to and fro. Several times, too, he 
 caught a glimpse of the animals, and instinctively 
 drew back and placed his hand on his revolver. 
 
 " Have a care ! don't go too far !" called Eustace 
 from the camp-fire. 
 
 Hermon had brought in four armfuls, and in- 
 tended that the next should be the last. He had 
 gleaned the field around him so closely that he 
 stepped a little further away than was prudent, and 
 his cousin, who was closely watching him, warned 
 him to be careful. 
 
 Hermon shouted back that he was going no 
 
A JA UNT THRO UOE JA VA. 105 
 
 further, and began breaking off some limbs which 
 hung almost to his shoulders. He had thrown 
 several large pieces on the ground when a peculiar, 
 snarling growl was heard. He looked searchingly 
 around, but could see nothing. 
 
 "Eustace, stir up the fire a little," he called, 
 dropping the branches from his hands and drawing 
 his pistol ; " I can't see well enough." 
 
 His cousin did as requested, and the yellow light 
 pierced the gloom. By its glow Hermon perceived 
 a large monkey squatting on the ground less than a 
 dozen yards from him. He was directly in front, 
 and seemed swollen to the exploding point with 
 rage. He was as large as one of those that had 
 acted as leaders of the troop, and would prove an 
 ugly customer in a fight. 
 
 Had he kept quiet, he might have leaped upon the 
 boy, and caught him at a great disadvantage ; but 
 he was too wrathful to contain himself. 
 
 As dimly seen, he was a hideous object, and the 
 youth shuddered. He was so nigh, indeed, that 
 Hermon was sure he could kill him with a single 
 shot from his revolver ; but he hesitated. There 
 was something in the act which grated on his feel- 
 ings, and he decided that if he left him alone he 
 would not disturb him. 
 
 But the situation of Hermon was a peculiar one. 
 It was necessary for him to retreat without his fuel 
 or else to throw awde his weapon temporarily, for 
 
7,06 ^ JA UNT TERO UGE J A VA. 
 
 both arms were required to carry the bundle of wood 
 to its place beside the camp-fire. 
 
 "When the darkness was lit up by the added glow 
 from the flames that Eustace stirred, the threaten- 
 ing monkey moved back a few steps ; but he still 
 faced the lad, and at brief intervals emitted that 
 peculiar snarling growl which told his unsmother- 
 able rage. 
 
 After confronting him for a minute or two, Her- 
 mon mocked his cries and took a step toward him. 
 The monkey stopped his noise on the instant, and 
 withdrew so far that he could not be seen. 
 
 That settled the question which Hermon had been 
 asking himself. Angry as the monkey was, he had 
 not the courage just then to attack him. He there- 
 fore shoved the pistol back in his hip-pocket, and, 
 stooping over, hastily gathered up the wood he had 
 broken off ; but while doing so you may be sure he 
 kept a close watch for his enemy whose savage 
 growls were heard again. 
 
 The youth was determined to have his last 
 package of wood because the monkey threatened 
 him, but when he straightened up with his arms 
 clasping the huge bundle he could not but reflect at 
 what a disadvantage he was placed in case his enemy 
 made a sudden assault upon him. 
 
 In going toward the camp-fire, Hermon did it 
 after the manner of a subject withdrawing from the 
 presence of royalty. He kept his face turned 
 
A JAUrrr TunouoH JAVA. lo? 
 
 toward the monkey, and stepped backward with 
 solemn deliberation. 
 
 He knew, or at least suspected, that the animal 
 would become bolder than before, if, indeed, he did 
 not make an attack ; for nothing gives such courage 
 to man or beast as the sight of a retreating enemy. 
 
 Sure enough, he was no more than fairly started 
 when the monkey, with a louder growl than ever, 
 came out of the darkness and ran swiftly toward 
 him. He had resolved to assail the person that had 
 inflicted such injury upon his kindred. 
 
 The sight of the frightful creature approaching 
 with such celerity startled the young American, who 
 hesitated for a second as to the best course to pursue. 
 Had he dropped the wood in his arms on the instant 
 and drawn his pistol he could have riddled his 
 assailant ; but it occurred to him that he ought to 
 reach the camp-fire with the least possible delay. 
 
 Still facing the foe, therefore, he began stepping 
 rapidly backward. At the second or third step his 
 heel struck some running vine, which was hke steel 
 wire, and he went over on his back with his heels in 
 the air. At the same instant the monkey, with a 
 screech, made a bound for him. 
 
 Fortunately indeed was it for Hermon Hadley 
 that when he fell so unexpectedly he did not let go 
 of the bundle of sticks. Had he done so, he must 
 have suffered grievous injury ; but instinctively he 
 threw up his arms, keeping them still clasped 
 
108 ^ ^^ tTNT TSRO XTOB J A YA. 
 
 around the wood, which made the best possible 
 shield for his face and the front part of his body, 
 though the hands were exposed. 
 
 At the moment he fell the monkey landed on the 
 bundle and began fiercely clawing to get at his face \ 
 but the usually cunning creature forgot that, a few 
 steps away, by the side of the blazing camp-fire, 
 another of the hated race was standing with rifle 
 leveled at the savage assailant, who was in plain 
 sight. 
 
 When the sharp report of the gnn resounded 
 through the woods it was the death-knell of th« 
 infuriated monkey. 
 
A JA UNT THRO UQII J A VA, 100 
 
 CHAPTER XIL 
 
 8TEALINO A UABCH. 
 
 HERMON was not injured by the spiteful 
 assault of the monkey. His aim was to reach 
 his face, and when he alighted on the bundle of 
 wood he began tearing it apart without paying any 
 attention to the hands within his reach. 
 
 The plucky youth still girdled the mass of wood 
 •trith his arms, and, though it was awkward and 
 Inconvenient to do so, he managed to struggle to his 
 feet without dropping a stick. Then he hastily 
 joined his cousin, who was in the act of reloading 
 his gun. 
 
 " Eustace," he said, some minutes later, " I be- 
 lieve when morning comes the monkeys wiU make 
 another attack on us." 
 
 " I feel certain they will ; but we can give them a 
 hot reception." 
 
 "It seems to me the number is increasing, and 
 there may be so many at daylight we can't stand 
 before them." 
 
 " That is likely to be the case, and we shall be 
 fortunate if we can withdraw to the nearest settle- 
 ment." 
 
110 A Ja unt thro uoh ja va. 
 
 " Why can't we flank the pests !" 
 
 " How ?" 
 
 " Let us steal away from camp in the darkness, 
 and by daylight we may be beyond their reach." 
 
 " I never thought of that. I don't know whether 
 it is possible or not. How can we prevent them see- 
 ing us go away ?" 
 
 " I don't know as we can, but we won't lose any- 
 thing by making the trial." 
 
 That boy may well congratulate himself who suc- 
 ceeds in outwitting a fox or a monkey ; but Eustace 
 and Hermon, after looking over the ground, as may 
 be said, decided to make the attempt. Their plan 
 was simple. They would try to steal from camp 
 unobserved by their enemies. "When fairly beyond 
 the lines, they could hasten away for several miles, 
 and place themselves entirely beyond reach of the 
 animals. 
 
 It would seem there was little ground for hope ; 
 but, as Hermon observed, they had nothing to lose 
 and everything to gain by the attempt. 
 
 " "We can only succeed," said Eustace, with a half 
 smUe, " by leaving Tweak behind." 
 
 " That is one strong inducement to make the 
 effort," replied Hermon, looking down with con- 
 tempt on the dog, stretched out and sound asleep, 
 with his nose stiU between his paws. 
 
 " You are uncharitable toward Tweak," said the 
 elder, " The game wb jclj he has be§ft forced to f aca 
 
A JA uNT Tsm mn u va. m 
 
 is more than a bloodhound or the biggest bull-dog 
 could overcome." 
 
 " I would like to see a monkey carry off one of 
 those dogs and drop him on the head of his master ! 
 If he tried it, it ■would be the monkey that would 
 drop!" 
 
 " Perhaps they may make a pet of Tweak," 
 laughed Eustace, " for there is no guessing the whims 
 of such creatures." 
 
 It will be understood that the dog, unable to com- 
 prehend what the boys wished to do, would be sure, 
 if taken along, to betray their presence by his 
 actions. Therefore it was necessary that he should 
 be left behind. 
 
 In order to succeed, the fire was allowed to 
 smoulder until objects were invisible at a distance 
 of two or three yards. They hardly would have 
 dared to do this had not the animals remained so 
 quiet that the lads were almost certain they would 
 not attack them before daylight. 
 
 Having agreed upon their course, Hermon, who 
 lay on the edge of what may be called the hne of 
 visibUity, noiselessly moved away, until any one 
 viewing the spot would fail to note the least sign of 
 him. An American Indian could not have with- 
 drawn from an enemy's camp with greater skQl 
 than he. 
 
 Not the slightest sound or signal was uttered by 
 either boy, for it was not required. Eustace listened 
 
112 A J A UNT TnuO UGH JA VA. 
 
 for that which he did not wish to hear — ^the sounds 
 indicating the discovery of his cousin's movement on 
 the part of the monkeys. They would be sure to 
 give evidence of such discovery the moment it was 
 made, and Hermon would be compelled to return 
 and stay by the fire through the rest of the 
 night. 
 
 Eustace Hadley was surrounded by impenetrable 
 darkness when, believing he was at a safe distance 
 from the smouldering camp-fire, he paused in his 
 stealthy movement and listened for some signal 
 from Hermon, who had preceded him by half an 
 hour. 
 
 The faint, chirping sounds which betrayed the 
 proximity of the monkeys were heard no more, and 
 he was certain he was far beyond the entire party 
 which had threatened within so short a time the 
 lives of himself and cousin. 
 
 As it was impossible in the darkness to see each 
 other, the friends agreed before leaving the camp 
 that so far as it was in their power they would fol- 
 low a certain fixed direction. The task of Eustace 
 was the more difficult because the fire was nearly 
 gone when he left it, and he could only rely upon 
 conjecture to determine the right course to follow. 
 
 Both boys understood this from the first, and 
 Hermon had been asked to signal to Eustace when 
 the proper time came to do so. That signal was a 
 faint, tremulous whistle — so faiat, indeed, that no 
 
A J A UNT TEBO UGH JA VA. US 
 
 one beside Eustace would suspect it was not made 
 by some bird. 
 
 Failing to hear it, Eustace softly whistled and 
 awaited the reply. Not, however, until he had 
 uttered the signal a second time did he receive the 
 welcome response. His heart started with delight. 
 
 " It begins to look as though I had no cause for 
 fear," he thought, stealing toward the point whence 
 issued the call. 
 
 The fact that the signal came from a point on his. 
 left was another proof of the impossibility of any 
 one following a straight line without the aid of his 
 eyes or artificial help. He had started directly 
 behind Hermon and believed he was advancing in 
 the same course, whereas their paths widely 
 diverged. 
 
 Only a rod or two were passed when Hermon 
 called again, and Eustace found they were so close 
 that he ventured to speak in a guarded undertone. 
 
 " Halloo ! is that you, Hermon ?" 
 
 " I think so ; move a little to the left." 
 
 " That's what I call a piece of the best kind of 
 luck," added the elder, advancing at rather a reck- 
 less rate toward his friend ; " it isn't often j ou can 
 flank a lot of monkeys — confound it .'" 
 
 The outreaching hands, one of which held his 
 gun, somehow or other missed a limb which glided 
 over them and directly under the chin of Eustace, 
 who weiiS ftlmost lifted off his feet, Se speedily di^ 
 
114 A JA UNT THRO UQH J A VA. 
 
 entangled himself, however, and, though the sensa- 
 tion was anything but pleasant, joined his friend in 
 a laugh, which was made the more hearty because 
 of their remarkable escape. 
 
 "You haven't got that dog with you?" asked 
 Hermon, when they had congratulated each other 
 in the impenetrable gloom. 
 
 " No — sad to say, I was forced to leave him be- 
 hind ; but don't take it too hard, Hermon ; sorrow 
 must come to us aU sooner or later ; try to forget 
 it." 
 
 " I'U. do my best," replied the younger, with mock 
 seriousness, " but it's mighty hard — ^that is for the 
 monkeys, if they think they have got a prize ; but, 
 Eustace, here we are, and I don't suppose it's your 
 idea to remain till morning ?" 
 
 " No ; we're too close to the monkeys." 
 
 ""What do you think they will do at daylight, 
 when they get ready to scoop us in and find we 
 have gone ?" 
 
 " There will be a great howling and outcry ; they 
 wiU mourn over their fallen ones, and lots of them 
 will scamper back and forth on the hunt for us." 
 
 " Can't they follow our trail ?" 
 
 "No; a monkey isn't worth a cent at that — ^that 
 is, I have never heard of them doing anything of the 
 kind ; they will search through the woods perhaps 
 for several hundred yards, and then, failing to fiftd 
 ijs, will give it up." 
 
A J A UNT THRO UQH J A YA. 115 
 
 " But it is best w^e should put a good distance 
 between our last camp and the point where day- 
 light finds us." 
 
 " There can be only one opinion as to that." 
 
 " Tou know more of these woods than I do and 
 will have to take the lead." 
 
 " I don't know enough about them to make any 
 better guide than yourself," replied Eustace; "a 
 native that had spent years in hunting through this 
 section couldn't help us where it is so dark." 
 
 " Halloo ! there's the moon !" exclaimed Hermon, 
 at the moment an opening among the branches over- 
 head gave sight of the orb, as it came out from 
 behind some clouds. 
 
 " That wiU help us," said his friend ; " but there is 
 so much vegetation that the shadow is almost every- 
 where, and we shall have to be careful where we 
 walk." 
 
 It was very tedious indeed, but neither lad com- 
 plained, for the necessity of such flight was too evi- 
 dent for either to lag. Now and then they reached 
 open places, where the ground was covered with the 
 long grass of which so much had been seen during 
 the day. Across these they walked with more free- 
 dom and swiftness. 
 
 The stillness which reigned most of the time was 
 broken now and then by the call of some night-bird, 
 and occasionally the cry of a wild animal floated on 
 the night-air, Three different times a strange, 
 
116 A JA UNT THRO UQH JA VA. 
 
 piercing sound reached their ears, which Eustace 
 declared was made by a tiger — ^possibly the mate of 
 the one that had been killed the night before. 
 
 "While crossing an opening more than an acre in 
 extent, which was broken by bowlders and rocks, a 
 number of immense birds darted back and forth 
 over their heads, and in irregular lines. 
 
 "They act just like bats," said Hermon, who 
 struck at one with his gun, missing it by a couple of 
 feet. 
 
 " They are bats," replied his cousin ; " and when 
 we show bats ia Java, they are worth looking at." 
 
 " They beat anything I ever saw ; how big are 
 they?" 
 
 " There are plenty of them which measure five 
 feet from tip to tip of their wings ; can you beat 
 that m America ?" 
 
 " No ; we never allow that kind of animal to have 
 wings. "When anything does, we call it the eagle ; 
 and the American eagle, as you know, can beat all 
 creation." 
 
 " The popular name of these creatures," said 
 Eustace, " is the flying fox." 
 
 " Why are they given such a name ?" 
 
 " Because of the red, fox-like color of the fur and 
 the shape of the head, which is almost exactly that 
 of a fox." 
 
 " They are big enough to be pretty respectable 
 enemies." 
 
A JA UNT THBO UOE JA YA. 117 
 
 " They don't amount to anything that way, but 
 they often make havoc among the fruits of Java, 
 and have almost ruined the crops in some parts of 
 the island. They are the oddest of creatures ; they 
 will hang by the score from the trunks or limbs of 
 trees, and are so quiet that if you came upon them 
 alone you would take them for some kind of fruit. 
 If you disturb them they will scream and flutter 
 helplessly about, for their eyes are good for nothing 
 except in the night-time." 
 
 " It is a wonder we did not pass some of them 
 during the day." 
 
 " I have no doubt we passed hundreds, but you 
 might go within a dozen steps without noticing 
 them. If you could see the head of a flying fox as 
 he squats on the ground, resting on his hind feet and 
 elbows, you would be as much surprised when he 
 rose in- air as you would to see a lion go skimming 
 toward the clouds." 
 
 By this time the boys were confident they were a 
 fuU mile from the place of their last camp. Well 
 aware as they were of the certainty of going wrong, 
 and the probability that they would travel in a large 
 circle and ultimately come back to the point from 
 which they started, they guarded very carefully 
 against such a calamity by frequently consulting 
 their pocket-compasses. At intervals these were 
 taken out and examined by means of a lighted 
 match. It caused many expressions of wonderment, 
 
118 AJA mr mno mn u va, 
 
 for every time they did so they discovered they 
 were swerving from the right course. Occasionally 
 this was so marked that the first one who looked at 
 his compass was certain it had become disarranged ; 
 but when the two were found to agree the question 
 was settled, and the boys were not f oohsh enough to 
 disregard what the instruments said. 
 
 At two o'clock in the morning the lads agreed 
 that fully a couple of miles had been placed behind 
 them, and it was safe to hunt some spot where they 
 could rest until morning. 
 
 The place was so inviting that it was decided to 
 use it for that purpose. It was on the border of 
 another of those natural clearings of which mention 
 had been made several times. An enormous mass of 
 volcanic deposit, which must have weighed many 
 tons, was heaped together, and along the side ran a 
 small stream of clear, pure water. 
 
 In -venturing on their jaunt through Java the 
 cousins had made no such preparations as they 
 would have done on entering upon a hunt in Amer- 
 ica. In the first place, there was nothing in the 
 way of severe weather to be feared, for it was never 
 known at that season of the year. Being the most 
 thickly-populated country in the world, they ex- 
 pected always to be within hail, as may be said, of 
 some settlement; and with their compasses and 
 Eustace's general knowledge of the island they 
 really could not go far wrong. 
 
A JA UNT THRO UOH JA VA. 119 
 
 True, there are heights to which the central 
 mountain range rises which reach an arctic tempera- 
 ture, and where, even though it lies so near the 
 equator, one can readily freeze to death ; but the 
 young hunters had no thought of climbing such 
 summits, and they meant to pass over the dividing 
 ridge between the rising and the setting of the sun. 
 
 But when they agreed to stop where they were 
 they leaned their gans against the rocks and began 
 collecting wood with which to start the fire. While 
 there was no particular need of this, it was a great 
 comfort to have it. There is something in the 
 cheery, roaring blaze, in the depths of the wilder- 
 ness, which does a great deal toward dispelling the 
 gloom of the solitude. It is a pleasure to look in 
 each other's faces when speaking, and the spot be- 
 comes ten times more cheerful by reason of its sharp 
 contrast with the surrounding darkness. 
 
 It might be that the glare of the flames would 
 summon some of the wild animals from the woods. 
 Perhaps the monkeys or lutungs (black apes) would 
 be drawn around them ; but the fire was started in 
 such a spot that it was almost entirely sheltered by 
 the rocks, and could not be discovered from more 
 than one or two points in the forest. 
 
 Accordingly, the sticks were heaped up against 
 the solid wall and the match applied. In a few 
 minutes the flames flashed out, and the boys sat close 
 together and congratulated each Other on the goo4 
 
1 30 AJA UNT THRO UOH JA VA. 
 
 fortune that had attended their efforts to " flank " 
 the troublesome monkeys. 
 
 "I didn't believe either of us would succeed," 
 said Eustace, " for we know how cunning those ani- 
 mals are. I was sure every minute you would come 
 rushing back to the camp-fire with two or three of 
 them on your shoulders clawing at your head ; but 
 when my watch showed me a half hour had gone by 
 I knew you were safe." 
 
 " Then you had little doubt you would succeed 
 yourself ?" 
 
 " It would seem I ought to have had no doubt ; but 
 when I crept away from the fire and rose to my 
 feet in the darkness beyond, something told me I 
 was going to fail." 
 
 " Something told you," repeated Hermon incredu- 
 lously. What's the use of talking that way ? What 
 could have told you ? I have heard good old ladies 
 discourse in that style, but you and I know it's all 
 superstition." 
 
 " It ma^ have been, but the feeling was there, all 
 the same. What do you suppose was the cause ?" 
 
 " Your heart was probably oppressed with grief 
 because you had to leave Tweak behind. I only 
 wonder that you didn't take him in your arms, just 
 like that other monkey, and run the risk of losing 
 your own life rather than part company with the 
 fraud!" 
 
 Eustace laughed. 
 
A JTA UNf THRO UOE J A 7 A. 131 
 
 " I think you have had enough to say about that 
 poor our to let him drop " 
 
 " He has had one drop ab:eady, and that's enough 
 for me," interrupted Hermon, rubbing his shoulders 
 over the remembrance. 
 
 " He is no longer a factor in this business," said 
 Eustace, with mock seriousness. " He is eliminated 
 from the problem, so to speak, and I therefore for- 
 bid all mention of his name hereafter, unless it be in 
 the respectful manner that should be used in refer- 
 ring to the departed." 
 
 "I wiU endeavor to respect that decision," re- 
 marked Hermon, with a solemn inclination of his 
 head. 
 
133 A J A UST TMEO U&B J A VA. 
 
 CHAPTEE XIII. 
 
 AN ALAEM. 
 
 EUSTACE and Plermon were quite tired from 
 their laborious tramp through the woods, and 
 when they lolled on the ground in easy postures the 
 rest was so grateful that they soon became drowsy 
 and laid their heads down in sltimber. 
 
 It cannot be said this was a wise proceeding, for 
 despite the favoring features of the Javan forests, 
 which I have shown, the recent experience of the 
 young hunters proved that an element of danger 
 was always present, and the two should never have 
 allowed themselves, when alone, to be unconscious 
 at the same time. 
 
 Such had been the understanding between them ; 
 but what boy does not know how insidious an enemy 
 is sleep ? Haven't you and I many a time deter- 
 mined to keep awake through the night, or for a 
 certain number of hours, and haven't we dropped off 
 into the " land of E^od " just as helplessly as an 
 infant? How often have we resolved we would 
 take notice of the moment we fell asleep, and yet, 
 when morning came, it was impossible to recall the 
 
A JA UNT TffBO UOH JA VA. 123 
 
 time? Of course it always will be impossible, for 
 the very best of reasons. 
 
 The boys were some hundreds of feet higher than 
 when they left their former camp, and though 
 within a tropical climate there was a perceptible 
 coolness in the air which made their blankets accept- 
 able. They lay with their backs together and their 
 feet toward the smouldering camp-fire, and slept the 
 sleep which comes to the healthy of body and mind. 
 
 But that kind Heaven to which both always ap- 
 pealed before lying down and on rising in the morn- 
 ing kept better watch over the unconscious forms 
 than any human sentinel could have done. There 
 was peril on every hand but it came not nigh them, 
 and when they opened their eyes almost at the same 
 moment the sun was above the horizon, the fire had 
 long died out, and no animal or reptile was in sight. 
 
 They were somewhat stiffened from lying motion- 
 less so long on the ground, which in Java is gener- 
 ally moist, but their youth and vigor enabled them 
 quickly to rid themselves of it. They carefully 
 bathed their hands and faces in the clear, running 
 water, and took one or two swallows of the refresh- 
 ing fluid. Then they were ready to hunt for some- 
 thing to eat. 
 
 " How about those monkeys ?" asked Hermon, as 
 though he had forgotten them until that moment. 
 
 " No doubt they are ready to fall upon and rend 
 eafih other iia their disappoi»tnaent Qver pur flight, 
 
124 A J A UNT THBO UGH JA VA. 
 
 If monkeys can talk — and I believe all animals have 
 a language of their own — they must be indulging in 
 vary hard words." 
 
 " I presume the principal expletive they use is 
 ' Dog gone it !' " 
 
 "No; because the dog isn't gone, or at least 
 wasn't when they found we had taken our de- 
 parture." 
 
 "But our respected and esteemed canine has 
 wished they could say it — well, I'U be hanged !" 
 
 The astounded Hermon almost dropped his rifle 
 in his amazement ; for there on the edge of the 
 woods were seen two grinning monkeys, hopping and 
 skipping under the trees and running up the limbs. 
 
 Eustace was astonished too, and both were fright- 
 ened, as they well might be ; for if their enemies 
 had succeeded in tracing them thus far, trouble was 
 sure to follow. 
 
 Hermon was so exasperated that he leveled his 
 gun at one of 'the monkeys, but Eustace pushed the 
 weapon aside. 
 
 " Why do you want to do that ?" 
 
 " If we have got to fight, we might as well open 
 the ball. It was our promptness that won last 
 aight." 
 
 " But we are not sure they wiU attack us ; we shot 
 their leaders and the others may be afraid." 
 
 The boys, however, were so sure of being assailed 
 0^ the enraged creatvires that the^ stood a full half 
 
A rA VNT THRO JJQE J A VA. 135 
 
 hour with the hammers of their guns drawn back, 
 and ready to open battle. 
 
 But it was noticeable that the two monkeys first 
 seen were the only ones that appeared. The boys 
 supposed they were the skirmishers, as may be said, 
 of the main body, which would soon swarm from 
 among the trees ; but as the time passed and 
 nothing of the kind appeared, the truth gradually 
 dawned upon the elder. 
 
 ""WeU, there!" he exclaimed, dropping the butt 
 of his rifle on the ground with a bang ; " that is a 
 joke on us." 
 
 Hermon looked inquiringly at him. 
 
 " I don't understand you." 
 
 " There are only two monkeys, and they don't 
 belong to the gang that molested us last night." 
 
 " Is it possible ?" and Hermon let down the ham- 
 mer of his gun and lowered the weapon. 
 
 "There can be no doubt of it. I propose now 
 that we give our whole minds to the task of hunt- 
 ing for breakfast." 
 
 Despite the assurance of Eustace, his cousin was 
 not whoUy satisfied until they had tramped along 
 the edge of the clearing and gone some distance 
 among the trees. The monkeys followed them only 
 part way, when, as if they considered them of no 
 account, they vanished and were seen no more. 
 
 Had our friends been hunting in the depths of an 
 American wilderness they would have craved a 
 
125 A u mr mso tr&M u va. 
 
 more substantial diet than mere fruit, for you know 
 meat is heating to the blood, and in the extremely 
 cold regions of the far north nothing else is used. 
 If any of my young friends should spend a few 
 months in the desolate lands visited by Lieutenant 
 Greely, or even further south, they would learn to 
 drink oil as if it were soda-water, and a taUow- 
 candle would be as toothsome as a stick of candy. 
 
 And so it was that though Hermon and Eustace 
 were vigorous youths, capable of undergoing as 
 much fatigue as any of their age, they wanted only 
 a fruit breakfast. The meat which they had eaten 
 at the house of Jurak the morning before was all 
 they cared to have for several days to come. 
 
 That fruit was at command in the form of the 
 dehcious mangosteen, which, as I told you some 
 time ago, is considered by many to be without an 
 equal in the world. They plucked it from the trees 
 around them and ate until their healthy appetites 
 were fully satisfied. 
 
 The boys were now near the middle of the Island 
 of Java, as regards both the length and breadth. 
 They had yet to cross the mountain ridge which 
 stretches from east to west, and which at different 
 points is broken by volcanoes, some of which are 
 active, while others are at rest. There had been 
 times when it would have been a work of extreme 
 difficulty for any one to make his way over this 
 chain, just as it was hard and dangerous a few years 
 
A JA UNT TEBO UQS JA VA. 1S7 
 
 ago for a company to force the passage of the Eookv 
 Mountains. 
 
 But for a long period the Javan range has been 
 traversed by well-beaten roads which take advantage 
 of natural depressions, so that hundreds of persons 
 cross both ways every week on foot, on their small, 
 tough horses, or in the rude vehicles of the country. 
 
 Eustace was in favor of turning to the right along 
 the side of the mountain until they struck one of 
 those roads, and then following the regular route to 
 the otner side; but Hermon thought it would be 
 more interesting and more in keeping with their 
 characters of amateur sportsmen to push through 
 the forest. 
 
 " I'm willing," said the elder, looking toward the 
 enormous pile of wooded country which towered in 
 front of them ; " but I want you to understand that 
 there will be more work than play in it." 
 
 " Well, I'm not afraid of work," said the plucky 
 Hermon. "We're out for something of the kind 
 and ought to be able to rough it." 
 
 " Enough said," remarked Eustace with a laugh, 
 as they resumed their tramp among the trees, 
 across the open spaces and around the rocky masses 
 that were often encountered. 
 
 The clouds which had partly obscured the moon 
 the night before were now gone and the sun shone 
 from a clear sky. For several hours during the 
 early pajt of the foreuoQja ^h^ gir seemed to be i^ 
 
138 ^JA. UNT TEBO UGE JA VA. 
 
 equipoise, but after a time a gentle breeze stirred 
 the vegetation and the temperature became de- 
 cidedly cool. 
 
 " "We would need a fire and our blankets to-night," 
 said Eustace, " if we camped on the highest part of 
 those mountains." 
 
 " Where do you expect to camp ?" 
 
 " I can't say positively, except that it won't be on 
 the summit of that ridge. Tou can see a deep de- 
 pression just off to the left," added the elder, point- 
 ing to what is known as a "pass" in the western 
 part of our country. It was several miles in width, 
 and, intersecting the mountain chain as it did, it 
 looked as if it marked the ancient bed of some 
 mighty river which had burst its way from the Javan 
 Sea to the Indian Ocean. 
 
 Of course aU the highways for many miles east 
 and west converged through this natural depression 
 in passing from the low, flat, alluvial shores on the 
 north to the precipitous bluffs on the south; but 
 between such roads were stretches of wild forests 
 and broken country in which are found many wild 
 animals and birds, and through which it is difficult 
 to travel. 
 
 Almost any one would have avoided that part of 
 the pass and taken to the routes where traveling was 
 so easy; but the young American insisted that if 
 they wanted nothing but a comfortable time they 
 ought to stay at home altogether. They possessed 
 
A JA UNT THRO UQB JA VA. 129 
 
 one cheering thought, however : at no time would 
 they be far from civilization, and should they need 
 friends they were quite certain of finding them. 
 
 Thus it came about that the middle of that after- 
 noon found them fairly within the broad natural 
 highway that had been opened centuries before by 
 some prodigious convulsion of nature, with every 
 reason to believe that on the next day they would 
 cross the dividing-line and begin descending toward 
 the Sacred Mountain, where they were to see the 
 wonderful ruins. 
 
 It had been their hope to arrive there that day ; 
 but I have shown what happened to them, and as no 
 necessity for haste existed, they were sensible 
 enough to take aU the time needed. 
 
 Though the sky was quite clear, there was visible 
 at all times a dark, muddy-looking vapor, resting 
 almost motionless in the horizon or stealing part 
 way toward the zenith. Eustace informed his cousin 
 that this came from the volcanoes, of which there 
 are about two-score in Java. 
 
 Toward night, when the air had become still, the 
 boys heard very distinctly a resounding sound, as if 
 made by a heavy bell. The tones remained a long 
 time trembhng and gradually dying in the air, as 
 they do when a heavy beU is struck a single time. 
 
 " That sounds like a gong," said Hermon. 
 
 "And it is a gong," replied the other. "Don't 
 you remember the watchmen that we saw stationed 
 
130 ^ M UNT TEBO UGH JA VA. 
 
 a mile apart, each with a gtin and a little house in 
 which to shelter himself ?" 
 
 " Yes ; we saw several of them." 
 
 "Well, when thejr have anything to say to each 
 other they do it by means of those signals. Hark 1" 
 
 The response of the answering gong came faintly 
 through the mile of intervening space, while the 
 third, which doubtless took it up, was inaudible to 
 the listening youths. Thus the signal, which prob- 
 ably started well toward Batang or Samarang, on 
 the Javan Sea, would go leaping a mile at a time, 
 until it stopped on the shore of the Indian Ocean. 
 
 It was not yet dark when the boys, finding them- 
 selves pretty tired, concluded to do the sensible 
 thing, and instead of sleeping in the woods apply to 
 some native for lodging or enter some town where 
 they would have no trouble in finding accommoda- 
 tions. 
 
 " I remember when I was a wee bit of a chap," 
 said Hermon, with a laugh, "that father brought 
 home the carcass of a deer which some hunter sold 
 to him. The venison was cooked for dinner and 
 was about as tough as the legs of your boots, and I 
 must say there wasn't much more flavor to it ; but 
 because it was venison I thought it was extra-nice, 
 and a diet on it would make a great hunter of me ; 
 so I chewed away until my jaws ached and I was 
 miserable clean through. Father saw what a dunce 
 I was maJdng of myself, and took mercy on m© 
 
A JA UNT TBHO tTOH 3 A VA. 131 
 
 before I starved to death and gave me some roast 
 beef. Now, we are so close to good accommoda- 
 tions that we would be equally foolish if we refused 
 to take them instead of sleeping outdoors." 
 
 >' There wouldn't be much difference — ^here we 
 are !" 
 
 They emerged into a highway at that moment. 
 It was about twenty feet wide, without fence on 
 either side, and was well worn by the wheels of 
 carts, the hoofs of horses and oxen, and the feet of 
 men, countless multitudes of whom had traversed it 
 from one side of the island to the other. 
 
 No one was in sight at the moment, but they had 
 taken only a few steps when an arrival came upon 
 them with the suddenness of a thunderbolt, and with 
 equally terrifying effect. 
 
132 A JA UNT THRO VOH J A YA. 
 
 CHAPTER XIT. 
 
 JUBAE. 
 
 IN THE middle of the road suddenly appeared a 
 man, naked to the waist, barefooted, with his 
 long hair streaming, eyes glaring, and running at the 
 top of his speed. He held in his hand a hris, one of 
 those fearful Javan knives, straight-bladed and fully 
 a foot and a half long, with which he sawed and 
 circled through the air back and forth as he rushed 
 forward. At every few steps he leaped from the 
 ground, uttering the most frightful yells, and fre- 
 quently glancing over his shoulder at those who 
 were pursuing him with their utmost speed. 
 
 " What does it all mean ?" asked the bewildered 
 Hermon. 
 
 "He is running amuck; move back or he will 
 attack us." 
 
 " If he attacks me, I'U settle him," muttered the 
 young American, raising the hammer of his rifle. " I 
 don't stand any nonsense, and when that sort of an 
 animal comes for a fellow it's time to shoot off a 
 gun." 
 
 The boys stepped nimbly to one side of the road, 
 and they would have run among the trees, had they 
 
A JA UNT TEBO UGH JA VA. 133 
 
 not known the crazy man had seen them, and such 
 action would encourage him to make an attack. 
 They kept their faces toward him as he approached, 
 bounding high in air and emitting ear-spUtting 
 screeches, and held their guns ready for use. 
 
 The native was quick to perceive the youths, and 
 with another curdling yeU he swerved to the right 
 and made straight for Hermon, his rapidly-circling 
 knife flashing in the sunlight as it played around 
 his head and shoulders. 
 
 " An right, old fellow !" exclaimed the youth, 
 bringing his gun to his shoulder ; " if that's what 
 you mean, I'm ready !" 
 
 Dreadful-looking as was the frantic native, the 
 lad did not wish to fire until it became absolutely 
 necessary in order to escape the murderous knife, 
 held in the grip of the lunatic. The latter ran 
 swiftly toward him, until within several steps. 
 Then he leaped upward, and as he came down 
 wheeled and continued along the road at the same 
 headlong pace. Disordered as was his intellect, he 
 had no wish to run against the muzzle of a loaded 
 rifle, which would have been discharged had he 
 advanced a step further. 
 
 "That was the closest call you ever had," re- 
 marked Hermon, lowering his piece and looking 
 after the flyiug fugitive, at whose heels were half a 
 dozen pursuers. 
 
 One of the latter was fuUy a^ fleet as the native, 
 
134 A JA UNT THRO UGE JA YA. 
 
 and during the cavorting of the latter he caught up 
 to him. Suddenly the fugitive was tripped and fell 
 to the ground with great violence. The one who 
 threw him leaped upon him in a twinkling ; there 
 was a furious struggle, during which the two were 
 half hidden by the dust, and then the knife df the 
 crazy man flew a dozen feet from his grasp ; he was 
 disarmed, and his conqueror choked him until he 
 ceased to resist and was on the point of suflfocatioh* 
 Then, when he was so weak he could hardly stand, 
 he was helped to his feet, and with a couple of 
 Javanese tightly grasping each arm he begah 
 walking slowly back toward the village from which 
 he started to run his muck. 
 
 As soon as he regained his breath he began to 
 struggle to free himself ; but the four who held him 
 did not loosen their grasp, and he was compelled to 
 cease from exhaustion, 
 
 " He has become crazy from using too much 
 opium," explained Eustace. " It isn't often that one 
 of our natives is taken that way, but it is quite com- 
 mon among the Malays." 
 
 " How does the disease show" itself ?" 
 
 " You have just seen ; the man may be as quiet 
 as you or I, when all at once he becomes frantic ; 
 he starts off, knife in hand, slashing aU within his 
 reach. Sometimes they slay a number of people 
 before they can be checked, for they make suoh a 
 sudden start that very few persons are prepared." 
 
A JA TINT TERO UGB JA VA. 135 
 
 " What is the u^Tjal course with them ?" 
 
 " They axe generally shot down, and any one who 
 does so is held guiltless by the law. Had you killed 
 hirn, no one would have blamed you in the least." 
 
 " I am glad I didn't, for it would have been dread- 
 ful. How was it that no one harmed him ?" 
 
 "He has many friends, and a few daring ones 
 made special efforts to run him down before he 
 could do much harm — heighoV 
 
 The native who had tripped the lunatic was not 
 one of the four who held him by the arms. He was 
 walking immediately behind them and giving direc- 
 tions. The above sentences had scarcely passed be- 
 tween the boys when he came so close that he 
 turned his head and looked at them. As he did so 
 tie and Eustace recognized each other, and with smil- 
 ing faces strode forward with outstretched hands. 
 Saluting each other, they spoke some words in the 
 Javanese, and it was plain they were friends. 
 
 " Hermon," said his cousin, still holding the hand 
 of the native, " this is my particular friend Jurak, at 
 whose house we stayed night before last." 
 
 " I am real glad to become acquainted with you," 
 said the finely-formed native, speaking with a de- 
 liberate accent which was almost as good as that of 
 a native Englishman. He pressed the hand of Her- 
 inon warmly and smiled broadly. The last did not 
 add any attractiveness to his naturally ugly counte- 
 nance, for, like his wife, his teeth had been stained. 
 
136 AJA UNT THBO UOE J A FA. 
 
 a black color, and many of them were far gone m 
 decay ; but the American felt a strong admiration 
 for him because of the pluck and deftness he had 
 shown in capturing the crazy native that was 
 running the muck. 
 
 "I am delighted indeed, Jurak," said Hermon. 
 " Eustace has had so many kind words to say about 
 you that I never would have consented to go home 
 without making your acquaintance." 
 
 "You speak kinder words than I deserve," re- 
 sponded Jurak, who, it was plain, was much pleased 
 by the compliment. 
 
 As the natives having in charge the crazy fellow 
 started back toward the village with their prisoner 
 they met others coming out to learn what had 
 become of him. Some of these looked curiously at 
 Jurak and the two youths talking together at the 
 roadside ; but none was guilty of the least disrespect, 
 and in a brief while the whole crowd were moving 
 away, while Jurak and the boys walked far enough 
 in the rear to talk freely without interruption. 
 
 Jurak proved the most entertaining of com- 
 panions, and Hermon could well understand why he 
 was held in such high esteem by Eustace. He was 
 unusually intelligent, and the elder youth told his 
 cousin that he wrote English as well as he spoke it. 
 This was the more remarkable, for the educational 
 facilities in Java are meager ; I am sorry to say the 
 Dutch are more anxious to make money out of the 
 
A JA UNT THBO UGH JA VA. 137 
 
 natives than they are to improve the mental and 
 moral condition of the people. 
 
 Jurak said that on hearing that a large tiger was 
 prowling through the neighborhood a couple of 
 days before he had told Mr. Hadley, his *mployer, 
 who gave him permission to stay away several days, 
 or as long as was necessary. When it was learned 
 that the terrible beast had been killed by a mere 
 lad, who fired from the hut of Jurak, the wonder^ 
 ment was great, for such an occurrence was unknown 
 until then. 
 
 Jurak and a party of hunters reached the home 
 of the native within a couple of hours of the depart- 
 ure of the boys. Jurak remained that day and 
 night at home, but as it was near the close of the 
 week, he concluded not to go to work tiU the follow- 
 ing Monday. 
 
 The Javans divide time into weeks, months and 
 years. Their week is either of five days or seven. 
 The former regulates the market, and is most gener- 
 ally adopted through the country. The week of 
 seven days is used only as referring to the seasons, 
 and to keep a more systematic account of the time 
 than could be done by means of the little shorter 
 week. 
 
 " Perhaps," said Eustace, as they walked slowly 
 toward the viUage, "you would like to hear the 
 Javanese names of the days in the week." 
 
 " I would, though I never can remember them." 
 
138 A J A TINT THRO UGH JA VA. 
 
 " They are Dati, Sunday ; Soma, Monday ; Ang- 
 gara, Tuesday ; Bvddha, Wednesday ; Raspati, 
 Thursday ; Suhra, Friday ; Samschaa-ah, or Swrnpah, 
 Saturday." 
 
 " How long is their year 2" 
 
 " They use the lunar year; that is, three hundred 
 and sixty-four days." 
 
 " I don't suppose they reckon time from the birth 
 of our Saviour ?" 
 
 " Of course not, but from the arrival in their coun- 
 try of a being whoni they call Aji Saka. That is 
 said to have taken place seventy-four years after the 
 commencement of the Christian era ; so that you must 
 subtract seventy-four from our year to find the cor- 
 responding Javanese year." 
 
 " "What is to be said of the religion of this coun- 
 try?" 
 
 As Eustace hesitated, Jurak took upon himself to 
 reply to this question. 
 
 " There are many -legends about the early history 
 of Java, but I cannot think they are truthful ; in- 
 deed they cannot be. The first white people who 
 visited it were the Portuguese, who came here in the 
 year 1510, as the Christians reckon time. The 
 inhabitants of this and the neighboring islands were 
 found to be well civilized. They were devoted to 
 agricultural pursuits, built vessels, and carried on a 
 large trade with the islands around them. The 
 Dutch first visited Java in 1595, and they settled 
 
A JA UNT THRO UOE J A VA. 139 
 
 here a few years later. The natives at that time 
 were Mohammedans." 
 
 " Have they always been such ?" 
 
 " No ; the records preserved by our nobles and the 
 many monuments to be seen aU over the island 
 show that before the Mohammedans their reUgion 
 was that of Buddha, which you know prevails in 
 Hindostan." 
 
 "And before Buddha?" 
 
 Jurak shrugged his shoulders, turned the palms of 
 his hands upward and shoved them away from his 
 body, much as the Frenchman is supposed to do 
 when puzzled, and shook his head. 
 
 « Who shaU tell?" 
 
 By this time they reached the edge of the native 
 village, which was attractive and picturesque. All 
 the houses were made of split bamboo, and each was 
 surrounded by luxuriant vegetation. The dwellings, 
 as I have told you before, do not as a rule have any 
 windows. There is no winter in Java and the 
 people live almost entirely outdoors, their huts 
 being mainly useful as storage-rooms for their few 
 possessions and to cover them wlien they sleep. 
 The ordinary dwelling-house costs from a dollar and 
 a half to three dollars, so that the head of every 
 family owns the house in which he is said to live. 
 
 "The Javanese are fond of society," explained 
 Eustace, in answer to the inquiring looks which 
 Henuon cast about him, " and they nearly always 
 
140 A J A tNT THRO tJOB JA VA. 
 
 build in villages. Even though Jurak lives by him- 
 self, you see he has his friends here, and he visits 
 these people a great deal." 
 
 " And so does Myeta," added the husband ; " she 
 vflU be here to-morrow evening, and will stay tiU 
 Monday." 
 
 " You wiU see," continued Eustace, " that in form- 
 ing a vUlage the people take care to have each 
 house surrounded by a piece of ground of which 
 they make a garden. If you will go through any of 
 these, you wiU find oranges, bananas, pine-apples, 
 mangosteens, melons, shaddocks, and lots of other 
 fruits growing there." 
 
 The settlement into which the little party had 
 entered consisted of some fifty or more bamboo 
 huts, one-half of which stood on one side of the 
 regular highway and one half on the other. As 
 each dwelling was placed several rods back from the 
 road and was imbedded in vegetation, the scene was 
 charming, as viewed by one walking along the 
 street. 
 
 The natives were passing to and fro, and their 
 pleasant voices were heard in every direction. It 
 was the regular dinner hour, for the Javanese as a 
 rule eat only twice a day — once just before noon 
 and again at sunset, when their day's labor is ended ; 
 but the excitement caused by the frenzied native 
 had brought a good many upon the street, and they 
 were talking loudly about the startling occurrence. 
 
A JA UNT THRO UGE J A VA. 141 
 
 Juraic paused long enough to inquire of some of 
 his friends and to receive their replies. Then, as 
 they resumed their walk, he explained : 
 
 " He was a good man, but he took too much 
 opium ; he became crazy a year ago and was fright- 
 ened, so he stopped for a long while ; but he began 
 to use the evil stuff again. I was talking with him 
 this afternoon and saw the wild look in his eyes. I 
 suspected what was the matter and stayed by him ; 
 but when my head was turned, he gave a great 
 shout and started to run amuck." 
 
 " Did he hurt any one ?" asked Eustace. 
 
 "He cut several people, but not very bad; he 
 knew I was at his heels and he was afraid of me, so 
 he had not time to stop very long on the road. I 
 thought when he turned toward you two, when he 
 met you, that you would both be killed." 
 
 " IdidnH,^^ said Hermon, " unless my gun should 
 miss fire, and it has never done that." 
 
143 A. JA UNT THBO UQS J A VA. 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 A JAVAN HOUSEHOLD. 
 
 JTJRAK glanced admiringly at the youth, whom 
 he held in high estimation for his exploit in kill- 
 ing the tiger. 
 
 " You would not have been blamed if you had 
 shot him, but I am glad it did not become neces- 
 sary." 
 
 " So am I ; indeed it would have been a sad thiA^ 
 even in self-defence. How is he now ?" 
 
 " He is in his hut off there to the left, where his 
 wife and friends are taking good care of hini. They 
 have a native physidd^n who has given him medicine 
 that will soon put him to sleep. Herfe is the hut 
 where we will stay to-night." 
 
 Turning abruptly to the right, Jurak led the way 
 through the charming garden which inclosed one of 
 the ordinary bamboo huts of which mention has 
 been made. There were no fences surrounding 
 these yards or gardens, and they walked over a path 
 so thickly strewn with fine gravel that it seemed to 
 Hermon he had never made such a racket with his 
 feet, which would have soon become tired had he 
 walked further. 
 
A J A TINT TSBO UQH J A YA. 143 
 
 The inviting appearance of everything became 
 more marked because of a long bamboo bench in 
 front of the structure and a little to one side. On 
 this sat a native smoking a long-stemmed pipe, with 
 the contented stolidity of a Dutch burgher on the 
 banks of the Zuyder Zee. 
 
 As he saw the little party coming up the graveled 
 walk toward him he rose to his feet, took his pipe 
 from his mouth, and held it to one side while the 
 other hand was thrust part way forward as he smil- 
 ingly awaited an introduction. 
 
 This ceremony was performed by Jurak very 
 much as Eustace himself would have done had the 
 situation been reversed. The name of their host was 
 given as Dati, which you will recall is the Javanese 
 word meaning Sunday. 
 
 Dati was similar in dress and appearance to the 
 majority of the natives whom Hermon had seen 
 since his arrival in that country. His long black 
 hair hung unconfined about his shoulders, though he 
 sometimes wore it plaited, with a handkerchief 
 bound around his crown in the form of a turban. 
 While many of the people go barefooted the year 
 round in Java, both Dati and Jurak wore shoes and 
 stockings such as are seen in this country. Each 
 had the long petticoat-like garment peculiar to the 
 island which begins either at the waist or shoulders 
 and descends to the feet, being clasped at the waist 
 by a girdle, in which is generally carried the hrie or 
 
144 A J A JJNT THRO UGS J A VA. 
 
 tormidable knife of the country. Our two friends 
 were covered by the long, flapping garment de- 
 scribed, and underneath it was a pair of trowsers, 
 with a short vest inclosing the upper part of the 
 body. I should have said that when Jurak was first 
 seen his head-gear was a large hat of palm leaves 
 in the shape of a reversed wash-basin, which he 
 flung aside as he took his seat on the bench along- 
 side his friend, who also made room for the boys. 
 Dat.^ set the guns inside his hut and then invited 
 them to the rear, where they bathed their hands and 
 faces, took a swallow of clear, pure water, and re- 
 spectfully saluted the wife of Dati, who was busy 
 preparing supper for them. Like most of her sex in 
 that country she was very homely in appearance, 
 and both she and her husband had the stained teeth 
 that are so shocking to look upon. 
 
 But she was an excellent woman and a good wife, 
 who treated her guests with great kindness. What 
 particularly interested the cousins, however, was a 
 little boy about six years old, who was the only 
 child of the couple. He was fat, joUy and pretty. 
 A small piece of colored calico bound around his 
 loins was all the clothing he wore. As a rule, the 
 native children of Java wear no clothing at all until 
 seven or eight years old, and spend nearly all their 
 time outdoors, until perhaps twelve or fourteen 
 years of age; then they must help their parents 
 work. 
 
A JA UNT THBO UQH JA VA. 145 
 
 The little fellow, who was called "Woo Woo, was 
 shy at iirst ; but he soon gave the visitors his confi- 
 dence, and they made a great deal of him. He could 
 not speak Enghsh, though he had no difficulty in ex- 
 pressing himself in his own tongue. As the mother 
 was equally ignorant, Eustace acted as interpreter 
 while the husband was in front engaged with Jurak. 
 Dati could talk a little in English, but very brokenly. 
 
 The supper (or dinner) was eaten in the usual 
 fashion. A handsomely-colored mat was spread on 
 the ground and the party seated themselves cross- 
 legged around it. Hermon noticed what he had 
 observed in the bouse of Jurak, that the rice with 
 which he was furnished was colored ; but instead of 
 being yellow it had a fine brown tint, due, as in the 
 former case, to some coloring matter which the 
 housewife had added in cooking. The eggs are 
 tinted, as we are accustomed to see them during 
 Easter-time ; and even pies and cakes are always 
 colored. 
 
 To Hermon it was a curious feature of life in 
 Java that, though it is the granary of the East 
 Indies and one of the great coffee-producing districts 
 of the world, yet the berry itself is used very spar- 
 ingly in that country. "When the cousins sat around 
 the board of Jurak there was no coflfee seen, nor did 
 Dati bring forward any. In its place he offered 
 boiled water, which the lads gracefully declined, con- 
 ifaning themselves to the liquid iu a cool form. 
 
146 A JA UNT THRO UGH J A YA. 
 
 Rice is the chief article of food among the 
 Javanese, though they have a great variety of fish, 
 flesh, fowl, and vegetable. As they are Mussul- 
 mans, of course they never touch pork ; but they eat 
 almost every other kind of meat, and are generally 
 addicted to hippophagy. Of course you know what 
 that is. 
 
 As the boys had eaten nothing but fruit through 
 the day, they were in form to enjoy something more 
 substantial. Not only did they partake of rice, but 
 also of fried buffalo steaks, besides several eggs, 
 which had been previously packed in salt and ashes 
 until the salt had penetrated the shell and flavored 
 the Qgg itself. 
 
 There were two dishes on the table that the boys 
 did not touch: one was composed of a species of 
 worm found in the teak and other woods, while the 
 second vf-as made up of white ants, which had been 
 caught in large basins and then drowned. 
 
 It was not yet dark when the meal was finished 
 and the guests moved around to the front of the 
 building, where Jurak and Dati relit their pipes and 
 began a conversation in which both seemed deeplji 
 interested. Eustace occasionally listened and ask^ 
 or answered a question, but when his cousin inquired 
 what it signified, he laughed and replied that it was 
 of no special account. 
 
 But while the men smoked the youths devoted 
 most of their attention, to Woo Woo, the bright 
 
A JA UNT THRO UOH JA VA. 147 
 
 little fellow, who showed great fondness for them. 
 They rolled him about on the grass and frolicked 
 with him until his merry laughter attracted the 
 attention of those who were walking along the high- 
 Way. The boys gave him a number of bright new 
 coins, which delighted him simply because they 
 looked pretty ; but the parents, who glanced slyly at 
 the pieces, knew their value and could hardly con- 
 ceal their pleasure. The Javanese receive but the 
 most meager wages from their Dutch employers, 
 and the money which the boys gave to young Woo 
 Woo amounted to more than his father could earn 
 by a week of hard work. No wonder, therefore, 
 that the parents were pleased. 
 
 Pretty soon Eustace left Hermon alone with Woo 
 Woo, and sat down on the bench between Jurak and 
 Dati, to whom he talked several minutes in their 
 native tongue. 
 
 " I should like to know in what you are so inter- 
 ested," remarked Hermon, when his friend rejoined 
 hira. " Where's he going 1" 
 
 This question was caused by Dati, who rose 
 abruptly to his feet, said something to Jurak, and 
 then walked out to the street, where he was quickly 
 lost to sight in the gathering darkness. 
 
 " How should I know ?" asked Eustace in turn, 
 looking around as though the departure of their 
 host was a surprise to him, when in truth he had 
 been urging his departure. 
 
148 A JA UNT TEBO UQH JA VA. 
 
 " He acts as though he was going down to the 
 corner grocery to talk pohtics or buy something for 
 his wife," added Eustace in a careless manner, as if 
 the question possessed little interest for him. 
 
 "It looks to me, from the way in which you talked 
 to him, that he had started off to get a little rest !" 
 
 " It may be," was the meek reply of Eustace. 
 
 But only a few minutes passed when Dati re- 
 appeared, walking quite fast. Before he could re- 
 suhie his seat Jurak and Eustace were plying him 
 with questions, and Hermon felt piqued that his 
 cousin should refuse to let him know what the sub- 
 ject was which possessed such interest to both. 
 
 " I sha'n't question him any more," said the 
 younger to himself. "If he chooses to affect so 
 much mystery, I won't please him by showing that I 
 care anything about it — heigho !" 
 
 A new arrival appeared. A native of medium 
 stature, clothed in rich and brightly-colored costume, 
 with hair elaborately plaited and coiled about his 
 crown, walked deliberately up the path and ap- 
 proached the little party in front of the dwelling. 
 Hermon at once suspected the truth ; he was a dis- 
 tinguished native — a prince, in fact ; the ruler of the 
 district. 
 
 Before he reache<i our friends Jurak and Dati 
 rose to their feet, took several steps toward him, and 
 then both squatted on their heels, where they sat 
 during the curious interview. This fashion, which 
 
A J A VBT THRO UOS JA VA. U9 
 
 struck Hermon as odd, is the Javanese method of 
 showing respect for an eminent personage. To stand 
 erect at such a time, even with uncovered head, 
 shows ill-breeding. 
 
 Eustace and Hermon, however, were not expected 
 to comply with the custom, since they belonged to a 
 superior race. They looked curiously on, the 
 younger especially wondering what it all meant. 
 
 The prince talked several minutes with the two 
 men squatted on the ground, during which, if Her- 
 mon had looked at his cousin, he would have seen 
 him smiling, as if anticipating some sport at hand. 
 
 The conversation had continued but a few 
 minutes when the prince, to the amazement of Her- 
 mon, turned about and walked toward him with his 
 right hand extended. 
 
 " Shake with him," said Eustace in a low voice. 
 
 " Of course I wiQ," replied Hermon, grasping the 
 offered palm and cordially pressing it. 
 
 " Great man," said the prince, speaking brokenly 
 and with a most expansive grin ; '' he great hunter — 
 he shoot tiger — he great hunter." 
 
 It all flashed upon Hermon. His fame had 
 feached the village. His friends had laid the plan 
 of telUng the ruler that the wonderful hunter had 
 arrived, and he had called to pay his respects. Be- 
 fore the lad could frame any Appropriate reply to 
 the words of the prince he bowed low, turned about, 
 and walked slowly down the graveled path. Jurak 
 
150 A Ja unt thro nos ja va. 
 
 and Dati rose from their humblie posture and re- 
 sumed their seats, both joinji^^ JEustace in hearty 
 laughter over the embarrassment of Hermon. 
 
 "That beats everything!" he exclaimed. "I 
 know who set that job up on me, and I will get even 
 with him." 
 
 " You have been greatly honored," said hia 
 cousin ; " it is not every verdant American whp pan 
 come to Java and be called upon by a native prince 
 as a matter of respect." 
 
 " Why didn't he invite me to spend a few days 
 with him ? I suppose I ought to be grateful, but 
 all the same I am not." 
 
 However, the best of feeling prevailed, and the 
 party sat a long time on the bench in front of the 
 hut talking together, though one of the number was 
 somewhat handicapped, because he did not under- 
 stand the language of the others. Finally, they 
 retired to rest. 
 
 Dati and his wife and little boy occupied the rear 
 apartment, while the others slept on the rude beds 
 raised a few inches from the floor and covered with 
 mats, which were spread in the front part of the 
 structure. 
 
 Jurak and Eustace soon sank into a restful slum- 
 ber, but it was a fuU hour before Hermon's senses 
 departed from him. Then he would have slept until 
 morning had he not been awakened in an unusual 
 "way. 
 
A J A UNT THRO UGH J A VA. 151 
 
 At first he thought he was in a hammock on 
 board ship. His couch was rocking to and fro in 
 the most alarming manner. Hastily rising to a 
 sitting position, he stared around in the darkness. 
 The rocking continued, sltid was accompanied by a 
 peculiar jarring and rumbling, such as he had never 
 felt or heard before. 
 
 AU at once the truth burst upon him : it was an 
 earthquake ! 
 
153 A JA UNT THRO UGE JA 7 A. 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 A MEMOEAELE NIGHT. 
 
 "V "X T'E ARE SO accustomed, except in the latitude 
 * * of Charleston, to look upon the earth as solid 
 and immovable, that the shock caused by an earth- 
 quake may be said to be greater morally than 
 physically. Hermon Hadley lay stiU only a mo- 
 ment or two after learning the frightful truth. 
 Grasping the shoulder of Eustace he exclaimed : 
 
 " Quick ! get up ! don't you feel the earthquake ?" 
 
 He was obliged to shake his cousin several times 
 and to repeat his alarming words before he aroused 
 him to a sense of the situation. Eustace was very 
 sleepy, and when he assumed a sitting position 
 muttered : 
 
 " It does seem to be an earthquake — that's so ; but 
 one place is about as good as another. This house 
 won't tumble down, and if it does, it won't hurt 
 anybody." 
 
 " Let's get outdoors !" exclaimed the younger, who 
 could not shake oflf his terror and was hastily dress- 
 ing himself. It took but a short time to don his 
 clothes, when he ran outside, followed a miau.te 
 later by Eustace. 
 
A JA UNT THRO UGB J A YA. 153 
 
 Though volcanic eruptions and earthquakes may 
 be said to be a feature of every-day life in Java, yet 
 no one can become so used to them that he does not 
 feel a terror when the earth trembles and sways 
 beneath his feet. The earthquake which awakened 
 Hermon Hadley was severe at first. The ground 
 rocked violently back and forth, then stopped, 
 trembled slightly, and just as he reached the outside 
 of the hut there came such a wrenching lurch that 
 he staggered and narrowly missed falhng. 
 
 " My gracious !" he exclaimed ; " what will be- 
 come of us ?" 
 
 " This is rather rough ; fact is it beats any I can 
 call to mind," remarked Eustace, who stepped out- 
 side a moment later still adjusting his clothing. 
 
 At sucn times animals no less than men are 
 sensible of the appalling convulsion of nature that is 
 going on. Jurak, Dati, and even Woo Woo and his 
 mother came hurrying forth and grouped themselves 
 in the moonlight outside. The villagers were 
 running back and forth along the street, or standing 
 in groups by the wayside, talking together in low 
 tones, and tremblingly awaiting the next shock. 
 Others were kneeling in prayer ; while numbers of 
 dogs, including Tweak, who, like a worthless coin, 
 turned up when not wanted, were galloping back 
 and forth, some barking, and others moaning and 
 whining in terror. 
 
 Jurak, Dati, and the wife of the latter, stood 
 
154 A JA XTNT TMBO UGM JA VA. 
 
 motionless, side by side, talking in low tones and 
 glancing at the clear, moonlit sky, and occasionally 
 exchanging a word or two with peppje who were 
 passing. 
 
 After the dizzying lurch madei by the earth th^ 
 vibration became of a gentle, tremulous character, 
 such as would have done nothing more than cause 
 the rattle of the window-panes, had there been any 
 in the houses ; but everyone was expecting another 
 shock, and the expectation of such a thing is almost 
 as terrifying as the occurrence itself. 
 
 " I tell you," said the white-faced Hermon, catch- 
 ing the arm of his cousin, " I would rather live in 
 the worst part of my own country than in the finest 
 section of the world and have such shocks as 
 this !" 
 
 " I think you have earthquakes there, too ; I know 
 they do in California." 
 
 " But they are nothing like this — only slight jars, 
 which the people don't mind. Why, this earth- 
 quake was enough to shake down the whole city of 
 San Francisco !" 
 
 (You will bear in mind that these incidents took 
 place before the recent seismic disturbances in 
 Charleston and its vicinity.) 
 
 " Or to turn the buildings around, so as to make 
 them face the ether way," remarked Eustace with a 
 laugh which amazed Hermon ; for of all times for 
 mirth, this was surely the most inappropriate. 
 
A JA UNT TERO UOH J A VA. 155 
 
 The jarring rumbling ceased, and all became as 
 quiet as before. Men and women began strolling 
 back and forth, as though it was early in the even- 
 ing. They talked in louder voices, and a number 
 came up the graveled walk of Dati and held con- 
 verse with him and Jurak. Woo "Woo and his 
 mother went inside and lay down agalin, as though 
 they considered all danger over. 
 
 " I guess we may as well do the same," remarked 
 Eustace, who had sat on the bench in front of the 
 hut and was yawning like a boy who ought to have 
 gone to bed long before. 
 
 " Can you sleep at such a time !" asked the as- 
 tonished Hermon. 
 
 " If it doesn't come too hard, what's to hinder ? 
 The hbuses in Java can stand a good deal of shaking 
 before they go down, and these bamboo htits are the 
 best." 
 
 " But sometimes the ground opens and swallows 
 people." 
 
 " Yes," said Eustace, rising to his feet and passing 
 into the hut, " that does sometimes happen, though 
 I've never seen it in Java. If I had, probably I 
 wouldn't be here to give the particulars. But come 
 in arid lie down. You needn't take off your clothes, 
 and you're so weU scared now that you ain't Likely 
 to sleep very soundly." 
 
 " Sleep !" exclaimed Hermon. " As though I 
 could close my eyes at such a time ! There may be 
 
156 A JA UNT THBO UGH JA VA. 
 
 a good many things I can get used to, but an earth- 
 quake is not one of them." 
 
 " "Well, take it philosophically ; that's the best 
 plan." 
 
 " Do you think there will be any more shocks ?" 
 
 " You know it must all be guesswork on the part 
 of any one ; but I've passed through a good many 
 earthquakes in Java, and I shouldn't be surprised if 
 we get another dose before the thing is over. How- 
 ever, I'll be obliged if you don't wake me up. If it 
 should turn things topsy-turvy, I'U wake any way ; 
 and if it don't do that, a fellow needn't bother." 
 
 Eustace had lain down again, and he now turned 
 over on his side with his back toward his cousin. 
 
 " WeU, if that doesn't beat everything !" remarked 
 Hermon, carefully rechning beside him. " I never 
 would have beheved that any one could be so indif- 
 ferent. I'm sure I never could learn to feel as he 
 does." 
 
 A half hour passed and no more shocks came. 
 Then Jurak and Dati entered and lay down, and by 
 and by all became still. The villagers seemed to 
 have gone to sleep once more, and Hermon began to 
 hope that all danger was over. Just before sinking 
 into a restless sleep, however, he was startled by a 
 slight jarring, which soon ended. 
 
A JA UNT THBO UGH JA VA. 157 
 
 CHAPTEE XYII. 
 
 JOTTBNEYrNG SOTJTHWAED. 
 
 IT "WAS not until the night was nearly past that 
 Hermon Hadley sank into a deep, refreshing 
 sleep. The earth had settled to rest, and so when 
 slumber did overtake him it lasted longer than usual. 
 When he opened his eyes the sun had been above 
 the horizon more than an hour. Everyone who had 
 slept within the hut was outdoors, and the mis- 
 chievous little Woo Woo had pulled the young 
 American's nose, as though he thought it too short 
 and wished to lengthen it. 
 
 " What are you at, you little rascal ?" demanded 
 Hermon, catching the youngster, who yelled and 
 kicked and laughed, and tried to wriggle himself 
 loose. The lad gave him a gentle spanking and 
 allowed him to get away, and then, adjusting his 
 clothing, passed outside, where the morning meal, as 
 was the custom on the first day of the week, was 
 awaiting them. 
 
 Hermon found not only the friends of the night 
 before, but Myeta, the wife of Jurak, was there, and 
 greeted him pleasantly. The day was the Sabbath, 
 and she had come to spend it with her husband 
 
158 A J A UNT THRO UOH JA F4. 
 
 among their friends. She still looked upon Hermon 
 with great admiration, for was he not the hunter 
 who had killed the terrible tiger ? 
 
 All were talking about the earthquake, but, so far 
 as could be learned, it hjad caused no particular 
 damage. As it was Sunday, Eustace and Herraon 
 concluded to stay where they were until the mor- 
 row, Jurak having promised them that if they would 
 do so he would accompany them on their Yisit to 
 the Sacred Mountain. It did not seem right to the 
 lads that they should spend the holy day in wander- 
 ing for pleasure over the country, and it was there 
 fore to their credit that their rest was more a mat- 
 ter of conscience than of inclination. 
 
 But there was nothing to be expected in the way 
 of religious exercises in the village — that is of a 
 Christian nature, the boys being the only two beings 
 in the place that bore the name. Although, as I 
 have told you, the Javanese are Mohammedans, yet 
 engrafted upon their religion are fragments of all 
 the creeds with which they have been brought in 
 contact during the centuries of their history ; so 
 that the result is a mixture beyond the power of 
 any man to systematize. The number of spirits 
 worshiped by the Javanese is past computation. 
 They are everywhere, and the smallest hamlet on 
 the island has its own special saint, who is the 
 author of the good and bad that come to the 
 people. 
 
A J A UNT THRO UGH JA VA. 159 
 
 Near the center of the village in which our young 
 friends were spending the day they observed a 
 great, Spreading tree (most hkely the direct cause of 
 the village being located around it), beneath which 
 was erected an altar. The natives were continually 
 approaching this from morning till night. As they 
 did so they laid on it offerings of incense and flowers, 
 uttering in broken Arabic the old formula, " There 
 is no God but God, and Mohammed is his prophet." 
 
 There were other ceremonies — such as the repeti- 
 tion of prayers in their houses — which continued 
 until after the sun went down, and which were the 
 cause of serious thought aiid meditation on the part 
 of the boys. AU this was especially impressive to 
 Hermon, who witnessed it for the first time, and 
 who recalled the missionary exercises in which he 
 had engaged with his own Sabbath-school, so many 
 thousands of miles away. 
 
 It being the first day of the week, three meals 
 were eaten — ^that of the morning, however, being 
 quite light. The boys took several strolls through 
 the village, and though they attracted considerable 
 attention it never was of an unpleasant character. 
 The day, however, became monotonous, and they 
 were glad enough when the night which followed 
 was ended 5 ahd bright and early the next morning 
 the two, in company with Jurak, and with Tweak 
 circling baek and forth through the woods around 
 them, started southward on their way to the Sacred 
 
160 A JA UNT THRO UGH J A VA. 
 
 Mountain, which they expected to reach within a 
 couple of days. 
 
 Less than an hour had passed when, on the crest 
 of the mountain chain which extends east and west 
 through the whole length of Java, they were 
 favored with the most magnificent view on which 
 the eyes of Hermon had ever rested. To the right 
 and left stretched the vast slopes of the mountains, 
 emerald with vegetation, and dotted here and there 
 with towns and villages, some of them so smoth- 
 ered in foliage that the eye could not detect them. 
 There were winding streams, uniting further on, and 
 expanding as they neared the sea ; there were vast 
 open spaces, covered with the long silvery grass 
 peculiar to the country ; piles of black, volcanic 
 formation ; towering peaks, several of the highest 
 climbing away up in the clouds to the snow line, and 
 from the summits of more than one of them poured 
 out enormous masses of inky vapor, which floated off 
 horizontally and seemed to settle in motionless 
 clouds along the sky. "When amid the murky dis- 
 charge, as it rose above the crater, the inhabitants 
 saw red tongues of fire darting back and forth, they 
 trembled, for they might well dread the conse- 
 quences. 
 
 But shading their eyes and gazing intently south- 
 ward, the boys could make out a blue, fleecy line 
 stretching around the horizon, until it gradually 
 vanished and mingled with the sky. This faint 
 
A J A UNT THRO UGH JA YA. Ifil 
 
 bluish line was the sea, and had they possessed only 
 in ordinary spy-glass they could have detected more 
 'aan one snowy sail stealing across its vast bosom. 
 
 " And that is the Indian Ocean," muttered Her- 
 inon Hadley, his eyes roaming from east to west 
 over the whole extent of the line ; " the smallest of 
 the five oceans, but still too vast for any one to com- 
 prehend its immensity." 
 
 " The coast on that side of the island," said 
 Eustace, " is high and rocky, while on the north you 
 know it is low and marshy." 
 
 " And unhealthy." 
 
 " No doubt of that. Batavia has been called the 
 graveyard of Europeans, for many have met their 
 death there. But the foreigners have located 
 further back, on higher ground, where they find the 
 climate much better. Along that coast," added the 
 elder, pointing to the south, " are gathered one of 
 the peculiar products of this country." 
 
 "What's that?" 
 
 " Edible birds' nests. They are those of the swal- 
 lows, which build them among the rocks and 
 caverns. Thousands are gathered by the natives 
 and sold, for you know they are considered great 
 delicacies — the wealthy Chinese esteeming them 
 highly and paying large prices for them." 
 
162 ^J-^ UNT THRO UQH J A 7 A. 
 
 CHAPTER XVIIL 
 
 AFTO. 
 
 JUEAK was too much accustomed to the beauti- 
 ful scenery of his native country to feel the 
 enthusiasm of his young friend from the other side 
 of the world. He stood patiently until the boys 
 were through enjoying the magnificent prospect, 
 when he resumed the walk toward the south. 
 
 The party were following one of the regular high- 
 ways which, led down the mountain slope toward 
 the ocean, and over which many people beside them- 
 selves were traveling. Numbers were on foot, 
 others were riding the tough Mttle horses of the 
 country, while still others were seated in carts 
 drawn by horses or oxen or buffaloes. 
 
 In every case the parties whom they met saluted 
 Jurak and the boys, and now and then exchanged a 
 few words with the native. Each one was respect- 
 ful; but there was something in the appearance, 
 manner and lives of these Javanese which painfully 
 impressed Hermon Hadley. While they were cour- 
 teous, obedient and law-abiding, they were thus, ii 
 seemed, because they were crushed to the earth by 
 
A JA UNT TBRO UGH J A VA. 163 
 
 their Dutch masters. More than once, as the young 
 American remarked to his cousin, it appeared to him 
 that Java was a great prison where all the inhabit- 
 ants were allowed to walk about and work outdoors 
 so long as they behaved themselves. 
 
 "It is best that it is so," said Eustace with a 
 laugh, "for these people in ancient times were as 
 warlike and cruel as the red Indians in your own 
 country." 
 
 Jurak informed them that in order to reach the 
 Sacred Mountain by the shortest route it was neces- 
 sary to leave the weU-traveled road over which they 
 were walking and bear to the west. Many of the 
 ruins in Java are in the depths of the forests, where 
 they cause so little interest that the visitors are not 
 numerous enough for their feet to leave any impres- 
 sions in the moist earth surrounding them. 
 
 It was yet comparatively early in. the day when 
 the three turned off into a branch road which, by 
 the faint imprints, showed that it was little traveled. 
 It should have been termed a path, indeed, for it 
 was so narrow that no wheeled vehicles ever passed 
 over it, though the ground was well worn. Jurak 
 explained that it was a route taken by many of the 
 natives, scattered over that section of the country, 
 who journeyed on foot or horseback and were seek- 
 ing the main road, which the party had left a short 
 time before. 
 
 They had gone only a little ways along this path 
 
164 A JA UWT TEEOUGH JA TA. 
 
 when Tweak was seen running from the opposite 
 direction as though coming from a distant point ; 
 but as he left the village that morning, it was clear 
 he had been frolicking around them for the entire 
 distance. Without coming very near, he wheeled 
 about and trotted out of sight around a curve some 
 distance ahead. 
 
 The country through which they were journeying 
 was similar in many respects to that over which they 
 had traveled after leaving the hut of Jurak, on the 
 other side the mountains. Luxuriant vegetation 
 inclosed them at aU times. Sometimes it was in the 
 form of spreading trees, whose limbs were so inter- 
 locked that the wonder was how they could grow at 
 all ; and again it was the tall, growing grass, sprout- 
 ing with such vigor that it almost hid from sight 
 the innumerable masses of black-colored stone. 
 
 Some two or three miles further on our friends 
 met a man whose resemblance to Jurak was so strik- 
 ing that the cousins instantly remarked it. He was 
 of the same height, nearly the same age, and dressed 
 very like him — that is, he wore good European 
 shoes, with the long petticoat, the bottom of which 
 was looped up, as is the fashion among the natives 
 when at work. The sash around his waist held the 
 long kris or knife peculiar to Java, and his head was 
 surmounted by the basin-like hat similar to Jurak's. 
 He had no fire-arms, however, his only other 
 weapon consisting of a long, sharply-pointed spear — > 
 
A JA UNT THRO UGH JA VA. It35 
 
 an instrument which the natives handle with great 
 effectiveness and skill. 
 
 It was evident from the manner of Jurak and this 
 man when they first saw each other that they were 
 old acquaintances. They smiled, shook hands, and 
 both talked very fast at the same time, so that 
 Eustace laughed at the exhibition. 
 
 The animated conversation continued only a few 
 minutes when Afto, as he was called, turned about 
 and walked with the party along the path in a 
 south-western direction. 
 
 "Is he going to make one of our company?" 
 asked Hermon of his cousin, who had hstened 
 closely to the conversation. 
 
 " Only for a few miles. He says that a couple of 
 fierce leopards, which have destroyed a good many 
 animals in this neighborhood, committed so many 
 depredations last night that he was on his way to 
 get help to hunt them down." 
 
 " "Where does he live ?" 
 
 Before replying, Eustace held some conversation 
 with Afto. When through, he said to his cousin : 
 
 "He is a laborer on a coffee plantation a few 
 miles further down the mountain. He lives with 
 his father and mother, nearer the plantation than 
 any of the others, but there are plenty of them 
 scattered around the neighborhood. They have 
 fowls, goats, sheep, and larger animals. Some 
 months ago a number of them were killed by some 
 
166 A JA UNT THRO UGH JA FA. 
 
 wild beast. A good many thought it was a tiger, 
 for the tracks were very much like those made by 
 that beast ; but those 'who were more experienced 
 said it was not a tiger. One moonlight night 
 several of the natives saw him, and then it became 
 known that it was a black leopard — which is almost 
 as much dreaded as the tiger. After awhile it was 
 learned that his mate was traveling with him, and 
 then, you may be sure, there was dismay through 
 the country. The people organized parties to hunt 
 them ; but the leopards kept out of the way, though 
 they came near cornering one of them. When the 
 folks were becoming desperate, and gathered in such 
 large numbers that there seemed no escape for the 
 beasts, aU signs of them disappeared. They had 
 gone so far into the mountains that it was not 
 thought worth any more attention. But now and 
 then one of them would make a visit, kill some ani- 
 mals, and be off before the people could gather to 
 ftttack him." 
 
 " Has he hurt any people ?" 
 
 « I will ask Afto." 
 
A J A UNT THRO UGH JA VA. 167 
 
 CHAPTER XIX 
 
 THE POST OF HONOR. 
 
 EUSTACE was surprised, on questioning the 
 native, to learn that two men had been killed 
 by the leopards, and that within the preceding week 
 a little child had been borne away from in front of 
 its home and never was seen again. 
 
 " "Why does he not go on and arouse the country, 
 if there are not enough people in his own neighbor- 
 hood to slay the animals ?" 
 
 " He would have done so had it not been for 
 Jurak, who told him that we three knew how to use 
 our guns on wild animals. When he said you had 
 killed a great tiger, that settled the question with 
 Afto. You are the young gentleman that's wanted ; 
 they are waiting for you ; they will not be happy 
 until you hurry to their relief." 
 
 The expression of disgust on the face of Hermon 
 became so pronounced that his cousin laughed 
 heartily. He could not doubt, however, that 
 Eustace had told very little more than the truth. 
 The admiring looks which Afto cast upon him could 
 have been caused by nothing except a knowledge of 
 Hermon's exploit, and he must have felt that such a 
 
168 A JA VNT TERO UOE JA VA. 
 
 formidable hunter would have little trouble in dis- 
 posing of two leopards, even though they were 
 exceptionally large and bold. 
 
 Afto reported, further, that both the animals, al- 
 though not corraled, were known to be in a thicket 
 or jungle not far away. The plan was to leave them 
 undisturbed untU enough hunters could be gathered 
 to surround the place ; then they would close in and 
 finish them. 
 
 " Is Afto the only one who has gone out to gather 
 recruits ?" 
 
 " Two others are engaged in doing the same thing. 
 They have taken another direction, and will not go 
 far. The fact is, as I am certain from what Jurak 
 said, that they have got enough together to kill both 
 beasts ; but the people are in a state of panic and 
 hesitate to make the attack. One thing is certain — 
 no one can be more welcome than we." 
 
 " They must have fire-arms — that is, some of 
 them." 
 
 " Yes, they have all sorts of weapons ; but the 
 fire-arms are not very plenty, and none of them are as 
 good as ours. It takes a long time for all the 
 modern improvements to reach Java — halloo ! 
 Tweak must have started up the leopard !" 
 
 The dog came galloping back in great terror. 
 His ears were laid flat, his tail was down, and he 
 kept glancing backward as if some furious beast was 
 at his heels. 
 
A JA UNT THBO UQH JA VA. 169 
 
 It was not impossible that cue or both the ani- 
 mals had been disturbed by the canine, and Jurak 
 and the boys held their guns ready to use at an 
 instant's notice, while Afto grasped his spear with a 
 firmness and vigor which boded ill for any foe that 
 might cross his path. 
 
 All at once the four broke into loud laughter. 
 One of the wild pigs that are so numerous in Java 
 came trotting straight after Tweak. The porker 
 was alone, and now and then he gave a little grunt, 
 as if enjoying the sport. Catching sight of the 
 hunters, he threw up his head, looked wonderingly 
 at them a moment, and then, as if satisfied, he 
 emitted another grunt and turned off into the woods. 
 
 It would have been an easy matter to kiU him, 
 but he was hardly worth the powder ; and with 
 many slurs upon the dog, who had shown similar 
 cowardice before, the party pushed on toward the 
 thicket, which Afto informed them was not far off. 
 
 Hardly a quarter of a mile was passed when they 
 debouched into an open space covered with grass 
 and several acres in extent, on the further side of 
 which stretched a dense piece of matted woods. 
 While this reached right and left until it joined 
 larger bodies of forest, it was no more than a hun- 
 dred yards in depth; that is, if our friends had 
 pressed straight on they would have gone clear 
 through the neck and emerged into the coffee plantar 
 tiou on the other side. 
 
170 AJA UNT THRO VQB JA VA. 
 
 Fully fifty people were scattered along the woods. 
 Several had rusty old firelocks, but the majority 
 held spears in their hands, besides the knives in 
 their girdles. They were not shouting or making 
 any demonstrations, but were walking idly back and 
 forth and talking in low tones, as if afraid to make 
 any demonstration against the enemy before other 
 reinforcements arrived. 
 
 Such was the fact ; and the appearance of Jurak, 
 Afto, and the two tall youths with their rifles, was 
 most welcome indeed. 
 
 " For gracious sake don't let Afto tell them any- 
 thing about the tiger !" said Hermon, as the parties 
 mingled. 
 
 " I'll speak to him," replied his cousin, stepping 
 hastily forward and touching the arm of their new 
 acquaintance. The latter turned and listened to the 
 earnest words of Eustace. Then he nodded, walked 
 away, and immediately began talking and gesticulat- 
 ing very fast to his friends, who one after another 
 turned their heads and gazed with such marked 
 wonder and admiration upon Hermon that he be- 
 came suspicious and wheeled around to Eustace. 
 
 " "What in the mischief did you tell him ?" 
 
 "Didn't you ask me to urge Afto to give the 
 particulars of your killing the tiger, so as to shut off 
 Jurak before he could draw a long-bow ?" 
 
 Eustace looked so serious that Hermon was 
 deceived for a moment ; but he detected the twinkle 
 
A 3 A XTNT THRO UGH JA VA. lU 
 
 in his cousin's eyes and observed a twitching at the 
 corners of his mouth. Then he made a plunge for 
 him, and the taller youth had to do some lively 
 running and dodging to escape the wrath of the 
 other. 
 
 " Well, if they are resolved to make a hero of 
 me," remarked Hermon, forced to stop and laugh at 
 his mischievous relative, "I can't help it; but FU 
 even matters with you, young man, and don't you 
 make any mistake." 
 
 Meanwhile the natives were discussing the situa- 
 tion. The boys joined them, and Eustace caught 
 every word. In a few minutes he turned about 
 with sparkling eyes. 
 
 " What do you think, Hermon ? They have 
 agreed that as you and I have such excellent guns 
 we are to take the lead ; and inasmuch as you killed 
 the tiger, you shall have the first chance to slay the 
 leopards." 
 
 " Good ! Nothing can suit me better," said the 
 plucky young American. " My gun is loaded and I 
 am ready. I hope they won't keep me waiting." 
 
 " No fear of that," was the reply of Eustace. 
 
 The presence of Jurak, Eustace and Hermon 
 Hadley, each with his loaded rifle, gave to the 
 natives a confidence which they had lacked up to 
 that moment. A brief conference was enough for 
 them to decide upon the plan by which the leopards 
 ^"ere to be slain. There were fifty men on one side 
 
173 AJA UNT THRO UGE JA VA. 
 
 of the neck of forest and about the same number on 
 the other side, while between, the two dreaded ani 
 mals were beheved to be crouching and awaiting 
 attack. 
 
 For these parties to communicate with each other, 
 it was necessary to pass through the narrow woods 
 which separated them and in which the game was 
 hiding. They made the passage by diverging far to 
 one side of the dangerous spot. 
 
 The plan of assault was simple, being mainly that 
 of surrounding the beasts. This compelled a line to 
 extend through and across the neck of forest, one on 
 the right and the other on the left. These were to 
 advance simultaneously with those from the edge of 
 the clearing. Thus the ring would gradually nar- 
 row and become more compact as it neared the 
 game. 
 
 It wiU. be seen that it was beyond the power of 
 any one to determine beforehand the most danger- 
 ous point in this contracting circle, for the precise 
 whereabouts of the animals were unknown ; but 
 Eustace, Jurak and Hermon were stationed on 
 opposite sides and well in advance of the natives 
 who meant to back them up. Those who had fire- 
 arms were closer, while the spearmen formed what 
 might be called the rear-guard, and calculated on 
 being " in at the death." Tweak had vanished long 
 before and none of the natives had any dogs, for 
 they were of no account at such a time. 
 
A J A TINT THRO 110 B JAVA. 1 73 
 
 Some of the Javans were still absent in quest of 
 reinforcements, but the arrival of our friends ren- 
 dered it unnecessary to await them. Within fifteen 
 minutes of the time when the little party emerged 
 into the clearing the large circle of hunters began 
 closing in upon the game. 
 
 The diameter of the huge ring when the advance 
 was begun was nearly two hundred yards, and as 
 there was considerable undergrowth, the opposite 
 sides were not in sight of each other. In fact, in 
 some instances a native could not see his neighbor 
 on the right or left; but as the advance steadily 
 continued they necessarily approached, and soon the 
 swarthy faces were gleaming almost everywhere 
 through the woods. 
 
 It need not be said that Eustace and Hermon, 
 while alive to the honor done them, realized the 
 dangerous business they had entered upon. Being 
 in advance of the others, they were the most likely 
 to be assailed by the leopards, which, when driven 
 to the wall, will fight with the fierceness of tigers. 
 
 After all, the cousins dreaded the danger from the 
 men themselves more than that from the beasts. 
 There was likely to be much excitement and con- 
 fusion, and wild shooting was sure to take place. 
 
 " I hope it will fall to the lot of Hermon to bring 
 down one of the leopards," said Eustace to himself, 
 as with cocked rifle he stole noiselessly forward, 
 Jookingf sjiarply upt only to tlie right and ieft but 
 
1 74 -1 JA UNT THRO UGH J A VA. 
 
 among the limbs of the trees, for the leopard differs 
 from the tiger in being a skillful climber. " He 
 don't fancy being made a hero, but it will be some- 
 thing to boast of when he goes back home. There 
 isn't many boys of his age that can truthfully say 
 they have killed a leopard and tiger." 
 
 The natives had now advanced so far that they 
 could catch ghmpses of each other. Many of them 
 were shouting and beating the bushes, with the hope 
 of frightening the animals into darting from cover. 
 All at once Eustace heard a sudden commotion 
 directly opposite him, and he knew that one or both 
 animals had been driven out. Men were running 
 together, shrieking and leaping about, brandishing 
 spears and firing their rusty muskets, until the com- 
 motion was enough to make one believe a dozen 
 tigers had assailed them. 
 
 Only one of the beasts, however, had appeared, 
 and the assistance of others was not needed. Al- 
 though sharing in the excitement they stayed away, 
 using eyes and ears to the utmost to guard against 
 an attack from the other, which, it was natural to 
 suppose, would rush to the help of its imperiled 
 mate. But the leopard is cowardly and sneaking 
 until forced to fight; then, asl have .stated, he be- 
 comes a tiger in his fierceness. Although the female 
 was assailed on every hand, and emitted snarling 
 shrieks of rage and pain, the male kept away from 
 her. 
 
A J A TTNT THRO XTOB JAVA. 1 % 
 
 The female proved she was "game." Finding 
 herself unearthed from where she was crouching 
 under a clump of bushes, she glided noiselessly forth 
 and stole swiftly toward the dusky native who was 
 shouting and beating the Shrubbery with his spear. 
 The latter quickly espied his danger, and with a cry 
 which nstantly brought his friends to his assistance 
 he turned and ran for life ; but fast as he was, the 
 leopard was faster. With a single tremendous 
 bound she rose in air, and shooting through the 
 limbs which intervened, dropped fairly on the 
 shoulders of the fugitive and bore him to the 
 earth. 
 
 At that moment the nearest hunter drove his 
 spear into the shoulder of the leopard and literally 
 forced her off the prostrate body, which was already 
 torn by her needle-like claws. The latter, infuriated 
 by the attack, sprang for her assailant, who, finding 
 his spear useless, drew his JcHs and struck viciously 
 at the brute, which, however, persisted in her attack. 
 The native was forced backward and dropped on 
 one knee. The wound inflicted with his knife only 
 added to the fury of the brute, which with incon- 
 ceivable quickness wounded him grievously in re- 
 turn. 
 
 The fellow who was making such a brave fight 
 for his life would have succumbed had not assistance 
 reached him almost immediately. As it was he lay 
 stiUj while a dozen men jammed their spears into 
 
1 7S A JA UNT TEUO tTGU J A VA. 
 
 the leopard, which, unable to withstand such an 
 overwhelming attack, snarled and fought with un- 
 smotherable fury for a minute or two only, when 
 she succumbed to a score of wounds, any one of 
 which would have proved fatal. 
 
-d JA UNT TEBOUQH JA VA. 177 
 
 CHAPTER XX. 
 
 A SHOT IN TIME. 
 
 MEANWHILE events became lively in another 
 quarter. Harmon Hadley, when the hunt 
 began, felt doubtful whether either one of the 
 leopards would be found where it was supposed to 
 be. It seemed unnatural that after they had 
 showed so much cunning and shrewdness, they 
 should squat down and wait quietly while such 
 formidable preparations were going on for their 
 destruction. But the youth was too wise to neglect 
 any precaution because of these doubts. 
 
 "When the fierce wrangling announced the death- 
 struggle, he stopped and instantly changed his mind. 
 
 "The other can't be far away," was his con- 
 clusion, halting by the side of a taU slim tree, " and 
 as they seem to be able to manage one beast, we 
 ought not to have much trouble with the other." 
 
 Seeing the "mighty hunter" stop, the natives 
 near him did the same, leaving their friends undis- 
 turbed while they finished the first brute. Know- 
 ing the skill of the leopard in climbing, Hermon 
 cJiisely scrutinized the limbs in sight; and it was 
 
1 rS AJA UNT TERO UGH J A VA. 
 
 well he did so. The cries of the expiring female 
 "vvere stiU in the air when he detected a movement 
 among the branches a short distance in advance and 
 some twenty feet above his head. There was so 
 much vegetation that he could not see clearly, but 
 he was convinced it was the beast for which they 
 were hunting. 
 
 The snarhng of his mate in her last struggle did 
 not bring him to her defense, but warned him that 
 he was in a dangerous dilemma himself. The brute 
 was among the limbs in search of some game for 
 their dinner; but he gave over all design in that 
 direction and moved out on a large limb, where he 
 crouched and awaited developments. Eather 
 curiously, the outcries and beating of the bushes 
 caused him no disturbance. The female was fright- 
 ened, however, into running into destruction, and 
 then the male looked about to decide what was best 
 for him to do. 
 
 The first object which seemed to attract his atten- 
 tion was a sturdy American boy, standing with gun 
 in hand and looking intently upward at him. "With- 
 out pretending to gauge the meditations of the 
 leopard, it is safe to believe he felt little fear of that 
 young gentleman ; and although the sounds indi- 
 cated there were many other enemies in the imme- 
 diate neighborhood, it looked as if he believed he 
 had only to drive that particular lad from his path 
 in order to open the way of escape.- 
 
A JA UNT THRO UOE JA YA. 179 
 
 Hermon identified the animal when it leaped as 
 Ughtly as a cat to a limb nearer him, and crawling 
 swiftly along it, stopped, crouched again, and glared 
 and snarled in a way that left no doubt of his inten- 
 tion to open hostilities. 
 
 " It strikes me that this is a good time to try a 
 shot," was the thought of the young American as he 
 brought his weapon to his shoulder. 
 
 The natives, who had stopped when he did, saw 
 him level his weapon at something among the 
 limbs, but they were not close enough to discern the 
 object. No doubt, however, could remain as to its 
 identity, and they were chivalrous enough to keep 
 back and not seek to interfere with his amusement. 
 
 Hermon did not want any interference. The 
 angry beast was close to the limb, pressing its sharp 
 claws in the bark after the manner of a cat, and 
 concentratmg its muscles for a terrific bound at the 
 youth. 
 
 At the very moment he was in the act of leaping 
 Hermon Hadley fired, sending the buUet into the 
 neck and shoulder of the leopard instead of through 
 his heart, as would have been the case had the ani- 
 mal remained stationary only a second longer. 
 
 Knowing he would bound for him, Hermon 
 jumped to one side at the instant, as may almost be 
 said, that the ball left his gun. As he did so he 
 caught a glimpse of the black creature, elongated by 
 its effort, shooting downward as if fired from a gun. 
 
180 A JA UNT THRO UQH JA YA. 
 
 He saw the glare of the eyes, the gleam, of the 
 teeth, and heard the fierce growl as it struck the 
 ground like a log. It was up again and made for 
 Hermon, who had retreated still further, and drop- 
 ping his gun, drew his revolver and began shooting 
 at his foe. 
 
 But the shot from the rifle was fatal, and after 
 several blind efforts to keep its feet and to get at the 
 lad it made a tremendous bound upward, emitting a 
 snarl, and falling on his side, gave one or two con- 
 vulsive movements and lay still in death. It 
 perished so quickly, indeed, that when the other 
 natives rushed forward all life was gone. The two 
 leopards had been killed within a few minutes of 
 each other, and, as Eustace Hadley desired, the fatal 
 shot was fired by his cousin Hermon — the sturdy 
 youth who had come all the way from the other 
 side of the globe, and whose first performance was 
 the slaying of the dreaded tiger. 
 
 His last exploit naturally raised him very high in 
 the estimation of the natives ; but while they gave 
 him full credit for his bravery, coolness and skill, - 
 the majority were sensible enough to attribute 
 much of his success to the excellence of the weapon 
 he carried. "When Hermon learned that such was 
 the case, he encouraged the belief as well as he 
 could by means of his interpreters, who, I am sorry 
 to say, were not always reliable. 
 
 But the neighborhood was well rid of two danger- 
 
M tb« leoparA vw In ^^^ ^"^ °i leaping, Hennon Hadley flrtd. 
 
 ^e pag-e 179 ) 
 
183 AJA UNT THRO UGB JA VA. 
 
 ous pests, and the rejoicing was universal. Hermon 
 was compelled to shake hands with his admirers 
 over and over again. He conducted himself with 
 becoming modesty, but when Eustace told him that 
 it had been decided to hold a grand feast in his 
 honor he refused. He declared that unless Eustace 
 stood by him in the matter he would go forward 
 alone to the Sacred Mountain. 
 
 Inasmuch as the elder youth also looked with dis- 
 favor on the scheme, the kind-hearted natives re- 
 spected their wishes ; but they promised that the 
 skin of the male leopard should be given the young 
 hunter who had slain it. 
 
 The two Javanese that had been wounded by the 
 other brute were so badly hurt that it was neces- 
 sary to carry them home, but it was generally be- 
 lieved they would recover, as happily they did in 
 time. Afto, being among his friends and neighbors, 
 bade Jurak, Eustace and Hermon good-by, and the 
 little party pushed hopefully forward toward the 
 Sacred Mountain. 
 
A JA UNT TEBO UQE JA VA. 183 
 
 CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 COFFEE. 
 
 ALTHOUGH Hermon Hadley knew that Java 
 is one of the greatest cofPee-growing districts 
 in the world, and though he had taken passing 
 glimpses, as they may be called, of the industry, yet 
 he knew little of the method of cultivation. Now, 
 as he and his two friends traveled for a considerable 
 ways alongside the extensive coffee plantation, he 
 studied the matter closely and asked many questions 
 of his friends. Eustace answered fully whenever he 
 could, and what little he did not know was told by 
 Jurak, whose life had been mainly spent on the 
 coffee plantations. 
 
 When a space has been selected for the cultiva- 
 tion of the coffee-berry, it is inclosed by a hedge of 
 quick-growing plants placed a dozen feet beyond the 
 outermost row of coffee-trees. Beyond this hedge a 
 ditch is dug, so as to carry off the surplus moisture. 
 
 The plants are grown from the seed that are 
 obtained in the nurseries. The berries, which 
 remain on the trees until fully ripe, become dry and 
 dark-colored. In that condition they are set out and 
 lightly covered with soil. They remain until two 
 
184 A JA UNT TEEO UGH JA VA. 
 
 leaves sprout forth, when they are transplanted into 
 beds a foot apart and protected by sheds from the 
 sun. A year and a half after the first transplanting 
 they are ready for removal to the plantation, where 
 they yield one of the most important products of 
 commerce. 
 
 The coflfee plantations are laid out in squares. 
 Holes two feet in depth and six feet apart are dug 
 in which the young coffee-plants are placed ; and in 
 the middle of the square, between every four plants, 
 a shade-tree is planted to protect them from the 
 fervid rays of the sun. 
 
 The young plants are very sensitive, and unless 
 handled with great care are destroyed. The most 
 elevated coffee plantations in Java use few of the 
 shade-trees, but they cannot be dispensed with on 
 the lowlands. 
 
 A noteworthy fact was told Hermon. In the low- 
 lands the coffee-berry, although large, is almost 
 tasteless ; but the smaller ones, grown in the higher 
 regions, possess an exquisite flavor. 
 
 The coffee-tree bears the second season after trans- 
 planting. At the close of the rainy season, during 
 which the plantation is set out, the unthrifty plants 
 are replaced, and thenceforward the principal work 
 is to weed and cultivate the ground. No one ever 
 prunes a coffee-tree, which frequently grows to the 
 height of fifteen feet. 
 
 The fruit ripeas during nme months in the year, 
 
A J A UNT TBRO UGH JA VA. 185 
 
 The gathering generally begins in June or July, and 
 ends in March or April. Each pod or husk contains 
 two grains of coffee, which are fit to gather as soon 
 as the pods turn a deep red color. They are picked 
 one by one, great care being taken not to injure the 
 buds and blossoms scattered among the riper pods. 
 A light bamboo ladder is used, and the women and 
 children generally gather the crop, while the hus- 
 band works elsewhere. 
 
 The average yield of a coffee-tree is about two 
 and a half pounds, though ten times that amount 
 has been gathered from one tree. There are three 
 gatherings. The first is light ; the second the most 
 abundant, and the last is what may be called the 
 aftermath, since it is the gleaning of the crop. In 
 the lowlands of Java the yield continues for eight 
 or ten years, and in the higher regions it is longer. 
 
 The newly-gathered berries are spread out on 
 hurdles several feet above the floor of the drying- 
 houses. Beneath these hurdles a slow tire is kept 
 burning day and night. The movable roof of the 
 drying-house is taken off morning and evening so as 
 to give the berries fresh air, but during the middle 
 of the day it remains in place. Coffee when dried 
 in the sun is lighter in color and weight and larger 
 in size than when artificially dried ; but the latter 
 has much the finest aroma, and the Javans insist 
 that only when coffee is dried by a wood fixe does 
 its flavor become perfect. 
 
186 AJA tINT THRO UOB JA VA. 
 
 The berries being fully dried, they are placed in 
 bags of buffalo-skins and pounded until the husk 
 drops off and liberates the coffee-beans. These are 
 then separated from the husks, placed in b^gs or 
 baskets, and deposited on shelves or platforms some 
 distance above the ground, where they stay until 
 carried to the nearest sea-port, thence to be shipped 
 to the four quarters of the globe. 
 
 By the time Ilermon had absorbed aU this in- 
 formation they were beyond sight of the coffee 
 plantation which was the cause of the boy's interest 
 in the question. The afternoon was not far along 
 when they passed through a small village, where 
 Jurak found several acquaintances with whom he 
 exchanged greetings. At the invitation of one of 
 them they partook of food, and then, after a brief 
 rest, pushed on again. 
 
 They had advanced far, and although the eleva- 
 tion was much less they caught frequent glimpses 
 of the Indian Ocean as it gleamed clear and blue, 
 many miles away, against the sky. The view was 
 extremely pleasing, as it always is when the sea is 
 seen from afar. 
 
 Had they cared to advance more rapidly, a few 
 hours would have brought them in sight of the 
 Sacred Mountain ; but, as I have shown, there was 
 no call for haste, and they made up their minds to 
 travel at a leisurely rate. "When Jurak expressed 
 some apprehension that the father of Eustace might 
 
A JA UNT THRO UOE JA VA. 187 
 
 not fancy one of his principal employes going off on 
 such a long jaunt without permission, Eustace 
 assured him that he would make everything right 
 between them. 
 
 As was expected, Tweak turned up when the halt 
 was made at the village and claimed his share of the 
 meal. He ate so much that the natives expressed 
 wonder how he could contain it all, and Hermon 
 suggested that the canine be given their entertainers 
 in payment for what he had eaten. 
 
 " I must admit he hasn't shone very brilliantly on 
 this jaunt," replied Eustace, when his companion 
 taunted him with the worthlessness of the dog, " but 
 we haven't got home yet. Wait till we shaU. have 
 done so, and then we wiD. balance accounts." 
 
 " He has one good trait," said his cousin. 
 
 "What is that?" 
 
 "He doesn't oppress us with his presence, es- 
 pecially if there happens to be any danger. He is 
 off again, and we may not see anything of him until 
 to-morrow ; but the affliction of it aU is that we are 
 .iure to see him some time. If ihe would only make 
 bis absence last forever he would be a perfect dog." 
 
188 ^ J-^ UNT THBO UGE JA VA. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIL 
 
 THE FIRST VIEW. 
 
 LEAVING the volcano ' of Sumbeng far to the 
 westward and that of Merapi as far to the east, 
 the httle party advanced through a valley running 
 directly south, and waUed in by two mountain 
 ridges extending in the same direction and gradually 
 approaching each other until, within a few miles of 
 the coast, they became one. 
 
 Between these mountains and somewhat closer to 
 the western side winds the Ella Eiver, which some 
 twenty-odd miles from its outlet takes the name of 
 the Praga, one of the principal streams of Java. 
 The Sacred Mountain, which was their objective 
 point, is within sight of the Praga. 
 
 The travelers were approaching the southern 
 border of the district of Kadu, which adjoins that of 
 Bagelen, in which is the Sacred Mountain. The 
 latter district extends to the Indian Ocean, so that 
 our friends were well across the island of Java. 
 
 Remembering how thickly populated the country 
 is, it can be understood that no need existed for 
 spending a single night outdoors; but when they 
 found the sun low in the sky while they were mak- 
 
A J A UNT TBRO VGH J A VA. 189 
 
 ing their way down the Ella Elver they decided to 
 pass the night in the woods, reserving the luxury — 
 if such it may be termed — of sleeping within doorh: 
 until their return journey, when they expected to bt < 
 in more of a hurry. 
 
 There was an abundance of the fruit of which 1 
 have often spoken all around them, so that they 
 secured without trouble what they wanted. Numer- 
 ous tropical birds were seen at intervals, and there 
 was reason to believe that some of the more formid- 
 able wild animals of the country were not far off. 
 
 The party were near the settlements, for in the 
 stillness of the sunset hour, when the trade-wind 
 seemed to be at rest, the voices of persons were 
 occasionally borne to them with startling distinct- 
 ness. Indeed, before darkness had fully come they 
 observed two men standing on the other side of the 
 narrow river and looking at them with some 
 curiosity. Being hailed by Jurak, one replied that 
 they lived in Jokjokarta, which is a town lying 
 nearly if not quite twenty miles to the south-east, in 
 the district of the same name. After some further 
 conversation the strangers withdrew. 
 
 Left to themselves, Jurak and the boys gathered 
 a lot of fuel and started a rousing fire. The weather 
 was so pleasant that it was not needed for comfort, 
 but was done for the cheer it added to the occasion. 
 Tweak had not yet put in an appearance, and no one 
 cared whether he was seen again or not. 
 
190 ASA UNT mm ms ja va. 
 
 The fire was kindled where its reflection extended 
 far onfc on the river and almost to the opposite 
 shore. The moon, which had befriended them more 
 than once before, did not rise till quite late, and it 
 was intended that when it appeared, or soon after, 
 they would lie down in slumber. They had done 
 considerable tramping during the day and were 
 quite tired. 
 
 Jurak filled his pipe, and rechning on the ground 
 smoked slowly, with his eyes resting on the 
 coals, and with that dreamy expression which 
 showed his thoughts were far away. The boys did 
 not venture to disturb him, but spreading their 
 blankets on the ground they loUed about in the 
 same lazy fashion and talked of everything that 
 came into their minds. 
 
 " How about crocodiles ?" asked Hermon. 
 
 " I don't believe any are found in the river, though 
 there may be some. There are plenty of caymans 
 in the lowlands, and I suppose a few make their 
 way as high up as this. Tou aren't afraid of them, 
 I hope?" 
 
 "Not that I know of. There are so many 
 nuisances in Java in the form of birds, beasts and 
 reptUes, that a fellow soon becomes accustomed to 
 them. I only thought of crocodiles because I hap- 
 pened to notice the gleam of the water." 
 
 By and by the friends fell to talking of home and 
 friends, until they became quite sentimental and 
 
A J A TINT THRO UGB JA VA. 191 
 
 homesick. Jurak took no part in their conversation, 
 and when at last they laid their heads down and 
 sank into refreshing, dreamless slumber, he was still 
 gazing into the smouldering embers and slowly puff- 
 ing at his pipe. 
 
 The boys were awakened by the crack of a rifle. 
 Starting up, they found it was growing light, and 
 Jurak was in the act of reloading his gun. He had 
 just brought down a bird flying by, and in answer 
 to the inquiries of his young friends said they would 
 not only take breakfast at a civilized hour, but would 
 partake of more nourishing food than fruit. As for 
 himself, he missed his daily rice, and the only sub- 
 stitute that answered was flesh, which he had just 
 arranged to furnish all. 
 
 The bird which he had shot was the size of a 
 turkey, and despite the fact that it belonged to a 
 tropical region, its feathers were almost as sober in 
 color. It was sound and plump, and when broiled 
 over the coals made an enjoyable and nourishing 
 meal. The party were only fairly through when, to 
 the amusement of all. Tweak walked solemnly forth, 
 halted in front, wagged his tail and hcked his chops. 
 
 His actions were so pleading that he was furnished 
 with all he could eat. Then he frolicked around the 
 camp for awhile until they resumed their jaunt. 
 Finally he whisked out of sight, and nothing was 
 seen of him again for a long time. 
 
 The three were in the best of spirits, and walked 
 
192 AJA UNT THRO UGH JA VA. 
 
 at a brisk pace until the sun was high enough to 
 feel its rays. It was not long before they struck a 
 path which appeared familiar to Jurak, and quite 
 frequently they encountered natives, who were in- 
 variably polite and pleasani. 
 
 It was not yet noon when, near the Praga, Jurak, 
 who was slightly in advance, stopped and waited 
 until his young friends stood by his side. Then 
 with a suggestive smile he raised his bony arm and 
 pointed to the south. Following the direction, they 
 saw one of the spurs of the mountain ridge which 
 had been in sight for more than a day previous. 
 
 " "Well, what of it ?" asked Hermon. 
 
 " You are looking upon the Sacred Mountain," was 
 the reply. 
 
-4 JA UNT TBRO UGH J A VA. 193 
 
 CHAPTEE XXm. 
 
 BAHA-BUDUE. 
 
 I HATE spoken quite often of the wonderful 
 ruins of Java, and must repeat that tney are 
 equaled nowhere in the world. They were left by 
 the Hindu conquerors, many long centuries ago. 
 Tjandis as the Javanese call their temples, are quite 
 common in both middle and eastern Java. 
 
 The most famous remains on the island were first 
 examined by Eustace and Hermon Hadley, under 
 the guidance of the intelligent Jurak. They lie a 
 little to the west of the right bank of the Praga 
 River, and are known as the temple-ruins of Bara- 
 Budur. 
 
 It is hard for me to make clear the surpassing 
 grandeur and magnificence of these ruins. In the 
 first place, a hill one hundred and fifty-four feet 
 high afforded a site for the structure, and the lava 
 blocks which strewed the ground in aU directions 
 supplied the material wanted. 
 
 Let us consider the dimensions. A square terrace 
 four hundred and ninety seven feet long incloses the 
 hill at a height of fifty feet. Five feet above is 
 another terrace, each side three hundred and sixt^* 
 
184 A. JA UNT THRO VQH J A YA. 
 
 five feet. Eleven, feet higher is a third terrace. 
 Then follow four other ramparts and four other ter- 
 races, the whole structure being covered by a cupola 
 fifty-two feet in diameter, surrounded by sixteen 
 smaller beU-shaped cupolas. 
 
 It is a remarkable peculiarity that on the outside 
 wall of the second enciente are one hundred and 
 four niches, each with its image of Buddha on a 
 lotus throne hewn out of a single block five feet 
 high ; and between the niches are sitting figures, 
 man and woma,n alternately. The inside of the 
 same enciente is adorned with still more astonishing 
 richness. It has nearly six hundred bas-reliefs, 
 representing scenes in the Buddha legend. The 
 space occupied by the bas-reliefs crowded with 
 figures is more than three miles in length. As I 
 have said, the work and skill expended on the great 
 Pyramids of Egypt bear no comparison with that 
 required to complete this sculptured hiU-temple of 
 Java. 
 
 When our friends reached the ruins of Bara-Budur 
 they found a number of natives moving among 
 them. A person could have spent a week in examin- 
 ing them, but at the end of two hours the party 
 walked toward the Sacred Mountain, which Jurak 
 had pointed out to them some time before. 
 
 The mountain itself had nothing remarkable in 
 its appearance, though its elevation is about a mile 
 and a quarter above the level of the sea ; but the 
 
A JA tlNT TSMO TIGS U VA. 195 
 
 rums are so extensive and wonderful that they have 
 been called the Benares of Java, after the holy city 
 of the same name in India. 
 
 " Can you tell me why it is called a sacred mount- 
 ain ?" asked Hermon as the three stroUed hither and 
 thither, accompanied by Tweak, who frolicked and 
 ran about as though he enjoyed the excursion as 
 much as did the boys themselves. Jurak had in- 
 spected them several times, but their splendor im- 
 pressed even him. 
 
 " You know tnat in India they have holy cities 
 and localities. The ancient conquerors of Java were 
 Hindus, and the custom prevailed among them. The 
 oldest known Javanese inscription speaks of this 
 mountain as holy, and it is still regarded as such by 
 many people." 
 
 " The temples are not reaUy on a mountain, as I 
 supposed they were from what you said." 
 
 " No. This is the Dieng plateau ; but, as I told 
 you, it has long borne the name of a holy or sacred 
 mountain." 
 
 As at Bara-Budur, the little party found others 
 beside themselves were present. The boys were 
 surprised and pleased to discover among them a 
 gentleman and his son who were Europeans. Her- 
 mon made advances, but the visitors were so churl- 
 ish that he quickly turned his back — preferring, as 
 he declared, the company of Tweak. 
 
 To reach the temples four flights of stone steps 
 
196 AJA TTNT TBRO UQH JA VA. 
 
 had been made up the mountain from opposite direc- 
 tions, and each flight contains more than a thousand 
 steps. The ruins show that upward of four hundred 
 temples once stood there, and most of them were 
 richly decorated with delicate sculpture- work. For 
 mile after mile the ruins are so numerous that 
 images are found in ditches, in rude walls, and half- 
 imbedded in the mud. The single stairway between 
 Lake Mendjer and Lake Tjebong contains nearly 
 five thousand steps. It is safe to assume that few 
 people can climb that ascent withqut stopping once 
 or twice to take breath. The entire plateau is 
 drained by an extensive subterranean channel. 
 
 "Without attempting anything like a fuU descrip- 
 tion of the Sacred Mountain and its extraordinary 
 ruins, you wiU admit that I have said enough to 
 show that they were worth a long pilgrimage to see. 
 "When we read or hear one speak of such wonders 
 we are apt to think that if we ever have the chance 
 to visit them we will spend many days in their in- 
 spection. We feel as though we can never become 
 weary ; but, after all, the sight grows tiresome from 
 its very richness and similarity of detail. Tou can 
 sit down and enjoy a beautiful painting for a long 
 time, but if you start to examine a gallery contain- 
 ing hundreds and thousands, the finest of them wiU 
 soon cease to interest you. 
 
 So it was in the case of Eustace and Hermon. 
 They strolled about, expressing their wonder at 
 
A JA UNT THRO UGH JA VA. 197 
 
 almost every step, and frequently pausing to view 
 more closely the marvelous exhibition, until, when 
 the afternoon was pretty well along, they began to 
 tire. The sun was sinking in the sky, and they sat 
 down on some of the bowlders to discuss what was 
 best to do. 
 
 They had wandered so far to the westward that 
 no other persons were near them. They could see 
 people in the distance, like dark specks moving 
 about, but the friends were alone and safe from inter- 
 ruption. While the boys rested and Tweak darted 
 hither and thither, Jurak stood erect, leaning on his 
 gun and gazing in the direction of the main collec- 
 tion of ruined temples. In the declining rays of the 
 sun they were gilded with impressive splendor, and 
 the dreamy, far-away expression in the eyes of the 
 native showed he was sunk in deep thought. 
 
 More than likely the religious side of his nature 
 was stirred by the sight and the recollections it 
 called up ; and as he viewed the handiwork of men 
 who had perished from earth centuries before, and 
 reflected that this was done as an expression of wor- 
 ship of Him who rules over aU, Jurak would have 
 been stolid indeed had not his feelings been stirred 
 and his heart touched. 
 
198 AJA UNT TEBO UQE J A FA. 
 
 CHAPTER XZrV. 
 
 A WELL-VENTILATED APAETMENT. 
 
 WELL," said Eustace, addressing his cousin at 
 his side, "you have crossed the island, of 
 Java, as may be said, and stand on the Sacred 
 Mountain. Do you feel repaid ?" 
 
 " Aye, ten times over. I shall recall this jaunt 
 through the country with dehght, no matter where 
 I am nor how many years from now it may be. 
 Pretty soon we must go back to school and settle 
 down to hard work, so we will enjoy our vacation 
 while we may." 
 
 " Shall we return afoot or on horseback *" 
 
 " I would prefer to go on foot and to double on 
 the route we followed in coming here." 
 
 " I know it will be pleasant to pass through the 
 villages where you are known as the mighty hunter 
 that slew the tiger, and where they never grow 
 tired of admiring you." 
 
 Hermon laughed and shook his head. 
 
 " Tou know it isn't that ; but they promised me 
 the leopard-skitt, and I would Uke to buy that of the 
 tiger from Jurak." 
 
 The latter, hearing his name pronounced, looked 
 
A JA UNT TEBO UGB JA 7 A. 199 
 
 down at the boys and asked what had been said. 
 When Hermon repeated his words he replied : 
 
 " It will be much pleasure to me to present you 
 with it. You slew the terrible animal and it be t; 
 longs to you." 
 
 " It might if I had removed the skin from him ; 
 but the work is worth something, and I wiU take it 
 if you wiU accept pay for it." 
 
 Jurak shook his head. 
 
 " You cannot pay me for it ; but," the cunning 
 fellow added, " Myeta would not be grieved if some 
 little token was given her, that she might be helped 
 to remember your visit." 
 
 Eustace winked at his cousin, who nodded slightly 
 and said : 
 
 " Myeta was kind to us, and I would always be 
 sorry if she would not allow me to present her with 
 something ; so we will consider the matter settled. 
 I don't want to be looked upon as the Eighth Won- 
 der, for any one with common sense cannot fail to 
 see that there is nothing so remarkable in what I 
 did." 
 
 " There may not be as much as some are inclined 
 to claim for you ; but after all it was remarkable, 
 say what you please." 
 
 " The good luck was ; but a tiger stops in front of 
 me in the best position possible he could take to be 
 killed ; I aim, pull the trigger, and he falls. Then 
 the leopard is within a few feet when he junips 
 
200 A J A UNT THBO UGH JA VA. 
 
 from a limb, and with the same excellent gun I 
 wound him so that he soon dies. Tou would have 
 done just as well if the same chances had come to 
 you." 
 
 " I think so," remarked Jurak, with a nod of his 
 head. 
 
 " Perhaps I might," said Eustace ; " but the 
 chances didn't come to me, so what's the use of 
 talking of what might have happened ? I didn't do 
 it and you did. You deserve credit for your cool- 
 ness, for many an old hunter cannot control his 
 nerves when he finds a tiger as close as that one 
 was to you." 
 
 " Maybe if I had known as much about him as an 
 old hunter I also would have trembled." 
 
 " But when you go to school with me and show 
 the leopard and tiger skins, you will be warranted 
 in feeling proud as you inform your friends that you 
 killed the beasts without help." 
 
 " Of course I shall ; but there will be one draw- 
 back." 
 
 "What's that?" 
 
 " None of them will believe me !" 
 
 " But I will assure them that I know what you 
 say is a fact." 
 
 " And how will that help matters ?" asked Her- 
 mon. 
 
 Eustace laughed over the tap he received and re- 
 plied : 
 
A JA UNT THRO UQH J A 7 A. 201 
 
 " I shall be careful where I relate the story ; it 
 ■will be among the people with whom I am well ac- 
 quainted." 
 
 "And the danger will be all the greater, because 
 of necessity they must know you. However, that is 
 a small matter. I suppose I could get the skins 
 without going for them, for Jurak could obtain 
 them ; but the jaunt is pleasant enough to walk, and 
 I think it wiU do us more good than if we ride." 
 
 " I have no choice," said Eustace, " and as there is 
 plenty of time we won't hurry. Jurak can show us 
 some new places and scenes, and you will have the 
 more wonderful stories to tell when you get 
 home." 
 
 " All of which being so, I beg to remark that it is 
 growing dark, and it is time we hunted up a hotel 
 for the night." 
 
 As the party meant to start back on the morrow, 
 it struck the cousins that the proper thing to do was 
 to pass the night among the ruins. There was 
 nothing to be feared from any change in the 
 weather, and their blankets were all-suflBcient to 
 protect them against the coolness which was felt 
 at that elevation. Beside, the ruins themselves 
 afforded all the shelter they could want. It was 
 agreed, therefore, that they would stay in the imme- 
 diate vicmity. 
 
 The only question that caused any thought was as 
 to food. All three were quite hungry and there was 
 
202 -4 JA UNT THBO UQH JA VA. 
 
 none near them ; but Jurak told the boys to locate 
 the camp and he would bring them their supper. 
 
 With this remark their guide, as he may be called, 
 walked away, and the boys set about finding a suit- 
 able spot. As a matter of course there was little or 
 no difficulty experienced. They stopped near the 
 ruins of what had once been an annex to a much 
 larger building, though it was impossible to guess 
 the real purpose for which it was originally in- 
 tended. It was made of volcanic stone, and about 
 one-fourth had lain buried for ages under the ashes 
 thrown out by some stupendous volcanic eruption. 
 The boys walked through an archway a couple of 
 yards in width, but from the cause mentioned they 
 had to stoop as they passed under the arch. It was 
 so dark inside that Eustace struck several wax 
 matches and held them above his head. By their 
 flickering light they saw they were within a space 
 nearly twenty feet square, on each side of which 
 were three archways similar to the one through 
 which they had entered. 
 
 "There's one advantage," remarked Hermon — 
 " we shall have the best kind of ventilation." 
 
 "Yes, I don't see that there is any difference 
 between this and all outdoors. It is so dark and 
 gloomy in here that we must have a fire, so let's 
 gather the wood." 
 
 It required a short time only for the boys to 
 gather all the fuel they would be likely to neati. It 
 
A JA UNT THRO UGH J A VA. 203 
 
 was so dai'k within the temple that they made haste 
 to start the fire, which speedily illuminated the 
 interior with its ruddy glow. It was then noticed 
 that the ceiliag was of plain, smooth stone, and f 
 about a dozen feet above their heads. As for the 
 rest, their eyes discovered nothing of special interest. 
 They spread out their blankets and sat down to 
 await the coming of Jurak with their supper. 
 
 " It seems to me," said Heimon, looking around 
 on the interior, "that this is a good place for 
 serpents." 
 
 " It's a good place for anything that takes a fancy 
 to it ; therefol'e it's a good place for us." 
 
 "But I have been told that in India and other 
 tropical countries where poisonous snakes abound 
 they are fond of hiding in ruins and old buildings." 
 
 "Of course they are, for they are so plenty in 
 that delightful country that you find them every- 
 where. When twenty thousand peoplo die every 
 year from snake bites, the poor reptiles must crowd 
 into any place they find." 
 
 " There are a number of venomous serpents be- 
 longing to Java," said Hermon, "but from my ex- 
 perience they are not numerous." 
 
 " No ; I have tramped for days through the woods 
 without seeing one. I don't believe there are any 
 near us." 
 
 Hermon was naturally relieved to hear his cousin 
 speak with such positiveness, and when Jurak came 
 
204 A J A VST THBO UGH JA VA. 
 
 in shortly afterward with an abundance and variety 
 of fruit, and all began to eat, they were in high spirits. 
 
 Something more substantial would have been 
 relished by the boys, while the native missed his 
 rice, which the Javan holds in higher regard than 
 any other article of food ; but it was no hardship to 
 make their evening meal from such a supply, and 
 when Jurak lit his pipe and the smoke curled slowly 
 upward he was the picture of lazy enjoyment. 
 
 But, as before, he became abstracted and thought- 
 ful. He took no part in the conversation, and was 
 either gazing at the glowing embers at his feet or 
 looking absently at the stony ceiling, which reflected 
 the glow of the fire. 
 
 " Jurak," called out Hermon from the other side 
 of the blaze, " Eustace and I have noticed that you 
 have been absent-minded and thoughtful all day. 
 What's the matter?" 
 
 The native looked around with a half-startled 
 look as though he had been doing something amiss, 
 and then smiled in a way which proved that he was 
 in anything but a mirthful mood. He was silent a 
 minute or two longer and then said : 
 
 " I knew I would feel sad when I came to the 
 Sacred "Mountain." 
 
 " And why so ?" asked Eustace. " You have been 
 cheerful at times, and chatted like yourself when we 
 were eating supper ; but both of us see that some- 
 thing is on your mind." 
 
A Ja UNT thro ugh J a VA. 205 
 
 "It looks as if unpleasant associations are con- 
 nected with the place," suggested Hermon. 
 
 " You have spoken the truth. I have been here 
 before ; the memory is sad." 
 
 Looking from the face of one boy to another, he 
 noticed their expectant expressions. 
 
 " Ten years ago I came to the Sacred Mountain 
 and the Bara-Budur. I rode on horseback, and was 
 with a missionary and his little son and daugh- 
 ter. The boy was fourteen, the girl fifteen. They 
 were lovely children, and each rode the pony as well 
 as I could do. The missionary was a good man, and 
 he felt much pleasure in looking over everything 
 that could be seen. He wrote much in a little book 
 he carried and asked many questions, and I was 
 pleased to answer him. When it came night he 
 wanted to go down to the village to stay ; but his 
 son and daughter thought it would be nicer to camp 
 among the ruined temples, as we are doing. He was 
 so kind that he hardly ever refused them anything, 
 and so he agreed to do so. I took care of the horses 
 and brought them fruit to eat, just as I did for you, 
 and we built our fire among the ruins." 
 
 " Did they camp in here ?" asked Eustace. 
 
 " I thought at first it was the place," replied 
 Jurak, again casting his eyes over the ceiling and sur- 
 roundings, " but it is not. If it had been, I would 
 not have stayed here." 
 
 "Why not?" 
 
206 A JA UNT TEItO VGH JA VA. 
 
 "Listen, and I will tell you. They had more 
 luggage with them than have you, and they made 
 much preparatioij. when they went into camp. The 
 brother and sister were tired, and they wrapped 
 themselves up for the night and were soon asleep. 
 The missionary sat a long time talking with me and 
 writing in his small book. He was doing that when 
 I put out my pipe and also lay down to sleep. He 
 told me afterward that he sat up a half hour longer 
 and then he, top, lay down." 
 
 " Then you were all asleep and had no guard ?" 
 
 "Yes; it was not needed that some one should 
 keep watch." 
 
 " How did you do when in the woods ?" 
 
 " They never stayed over night in the woods, as 
 we have done. The brother and sister often wanted 
 to do so ; but the father would not consent and we 
 slept in the houses. There was nothing to fear, here, 
 and the missiona,ry told me that he had no thought 
 of danger when he lay down." 
 
 It was clear from the manner of Jurak that he 
 hsui a singular occurrence to relate, and the boys 
 closely listened, 
 
 "I was the first one to awake in the morning, 
 and I began stirring about and bringing water and 
 getting the fire ready for our morning meal. While 
 I was doing so the father and daughter aroused 
 themselves, and then it was noticed that the boy 
 ^as absent. 
 
A J A UNT THRO UGH J A 7A. ^a07 
 
 "We thought nothing of that until an hour had 
 gone by without any one seeing him. The father 
 went outside the ruins and called, but no answer 
 came to him ; and then we all were alarmed, ana 
 set out to find th^ boy. 
 
 ""Well," added Jurak with a sigh, "we hunted 
 and inquired, and engaged other persons to hunt 
 everywhere, but he never was found. Not the least 
 trace of him ever came to light. He was a bright, 
 good boy, and when I think of him I caimot help 
 feeling sorrowfuL" 
 
208 A J A TINT THBO UOB J A VA. 
 
 CHAPTEE XXV. 
 
 misshtg. 
 
 NO "WONDEE that Jurak felt grieved when he 
 recalled the affecting story. 
 
 " At last," he added, " the father and sister were 
 obliged to go back to Batavia without gaining ti- 
 dings of the missing boy. They were broken- 
 hearted." 
 
 " I do not wonder that they were. What became 
 of the missionary ?" 
 
 " He came to me two years afterward, and I went 
 to the Sacred Mountain to search with him for his 
 boy. He had had other men looking ever since we 
 were there, and offered a large reward ; but it was 
 no use. The father looked twenty years older than 
 when I saw him before. "We did all we could, but 
 the end was the same. He went back more broken- 
 hearted than ever, and I have never seen him since." 
 
 " That is a sad story, indeed," said Hermon. " Its 
 remembrance must bring you grief. But what could 
 have become of the boy ?" 
 
 " Do you think, if I could answer that question, I 
 would not have done so when the father and the 
 sister asked me so many times ?" 
 
A J A UNT THRO TJOIl J A VA. 209 
 
 " Of course not ; but there must have been some 
 theories which occurred to you all. Such things 
 don't take place without a cause that ought to 
 be known to some one." 
 
 " The father thought his son had wandered off to 
 the woods in his sleep and had been devoured by 
 some wild animal. Sometimes I think the father 
 was right. Another old acquaintance, Marriavo (I 
 got our supper at his hut), had the oddest explana- 
 tion of all. You know we are not very far from the 
 ocean. He said he had seen some rough-looking 
 sailor-men in the neighborhood for several days, and 
 he thought they had stolen the boy." 
 
 " Is it not possible he was right ?" 
 
 Jurak shook his head. 
 
 " It could not be. "Would any party of men come 
 into a place and steal a boy and not disturb his 
 beautiful sister who lay asleep, with her father, near 
 at hand ? Why would they have taken the boy and 
 left the others and the property ? Why would they 
 have stolen the boy, anyway ? No ; it is not pos- 
 sible ; the boy did not disappear that way." 
 
 "How, then, was it?" 
 
 " I cannot teU. I have thought of a good many 
 ways, and it seems most likely that it was as the 
 father believed — he wandered off in the darkness 
 and was slain by some wild animal." 
 
 Eustace knew of the journey which Jurak made 
 with the missionary ten years before, but he had 
 
SIO A JA UNT THBO UGR J A VA. 
 
 never heard anything of the strange disappearance 
 of the boy. Like his cousin, he was much impressed 
 by the narration, and it was natural that they shqul(l 
 speculate a good deal in their hunt for some rational 
 explanation of the occurrence. 
 
 Jurak listened but made no comment. He re- 
 filled his pipe, and fixing his eyes on the fire, which 
 was beginning to smoulder, slowly puffed, and sank 
 again into a dreamy abstraction. The boys felt 
 that he had exerted himself to tell them of the 
 occurrence, and they did not question him any 
 further. 
 
 It was quite late before the cousins felt drowsy 
 and made their preparations to sleep. 
 
 " I think that boy must have been a somnambu- 
 list," remarked Hermon, after he and Eustace had 
 wrapped their blankets about them and were wait- 
 ing for the coming of slumber ; " he strayed off,; just, 
 as the father believed." 
 
 Eustace assented, and after some further talk the 
 two fell into slumber. 
 
 Jurak continued smoking a long time. He made 
 no move to replenish the fire, which burned lower 
 and lower, tmtn he could hardly see the forms of the 
 unconscious lads stretched out on the floor of the old 
 ruin. On one side a few of thp moon's rays pene- 
 trated the place, but the orb was so high in the 
 heavens that only a few iaclies of the mterior were 
 illuminated. 
 
A jAUN-2 Tanouan JAVA. 311 
 
 At last the native knocked tlie ashes from his 
 pipe, and with a sigh slowly rose to his feet aud 
 walked outside, where he stood a long time in con- 
 templation.. 
 
 The scene was impressive, the bright moon light- 
 ing up the ruined temples and buildings like a city 
 whose inhabitants were wrapped in slumber. It was 
 hard for one to realize, while gazing around him, 
 that the men who had builded these wonderful 
 structures had been dugt for so many centuries — that 
 they had perished so utterly from the earth that the 
 piles of stone were the only evidences they ever 
 existed. No living man or animal was seen, though 
 people dwelt at no great distance in their primitive 
 structures. 
 
 A faint, almost inaudible murmur was borne to 
 Jurak on the gentle breeze which swept over the 
 island. It was the voice of the Indian Ocean, which 
 miles away beat against the rocky shores of Java, as 
 it had done ever since the island was torn from the 
 mainland of the continent by one of themightiest 
 upheavals of the world. 
 
 Finally, as if wearied with mental oppression, the 
 native turned about, and wrapping his thjck blanket 
 around him, lay down on the hard iloor plose to the 
 embers, which had almost died out. It was a long 
 t ime before he slept ; but when he did so, his slum- 
 ber was so deep that he did not awaken until day- 
 hght lit up the place. 
 
213 M.JA UNT TEBO UGR JA VA. 
 
 Even then he was aroused by Eustace, who shook 
 him vigorously by the shoulder. 
 
 " Jurak," said he, " you sleep sound. I have been 
 awake fully a half hour. Hermon is gone!" 
 
 " What !" exclaimed the guide, springing to his 
 feet. "Where is he?" 
 
 " I cannot tell. I am greatly alarmed. Can it be 
 that any ill has befallen him ?" 
 
 " We will soon find out," rephed Jurak, unable to 
 hide his emotions. "I am afraid something is 
 wrong." 
 
 Under ordinary circumstances the absence of Her- 
 mon Hadley would have caused no alarm until it had 
 lasted a long time, but it will be understood why 
 both Eustace and Jurak were in great distress from 
 the first. 
 
 In every respect the disappearance of the youth 
 corresponded, so far, to that of the missionary's son, 
 of whom no trace was ever found. Jurak and 
 Eustace did not wjsh to believe it was due to the 
 same cause, but how could they help thinking 
 so? 
 
 Eustace related that when he slept his brain ran 
 riot over the strange story of the other boy. At the 
 moment he opened his eyes he felt that something 
 was amiss. His face was turned toward Jurak, and 
 raising his head, he noticed that he was sleeping 
 so heavily that his breathing was plainly heard. 
 Then he turned like a flash toward the spot where 
 
A JA XTNT TBBO XTGIT J A VA. glS 
 
 his cousin had lain down near him. There was his 
 blanket, but Hermon. with his gun and everything 
 else, was gone. 
 
 Forcing down the dreadful fear that shot through 
 him, Eustace did not wait to a^vaken Jurak, but 
 dashed out of the ruins and ran hither and thither, 
 signaling to his cousin by means of the sharp whist- 
 ling they often used when separated from each 
 other. Of course there were no answers, and then 
 he hurried back and aroused the guide. 
 
 The two almost instantly parted company and 
 pushed their search for fully a quarter of a mile in 
 every direction. Eustace, as you remember, could 
 speak the Javanese as weU as the native, and he 
 asked questions of every one whom he met. To the 
 west, north and east stretched the ruins and rem- 
 nants of buildings, through which the youth hunted 
 with the utmost vigor. To the south, a quarter of a 
 mile distant, was a native village. 
 
 "While hurrying among the old temples, Eustace 
 saw people here and there. He approached aU 
 within reach and asked whether they had seen any- 
 thing of Hermon. The natives, some of whom 
 seemed to make their home among the ruins, listened 
 closely, and would have been glad to help the youth, 
 whose distress was so apparent ; but in every case 
 they gravely shook their heads and replied that they 
 had seen nothing of the missing one. Pausing only 
 long enough to add that any one who found him 
 
214 A U VNT TUno tVM J A VA. 
 
 would be liberally paid, Eustace hu'rried on to ques 
 tion the next one whom he sa.vr. 
 
 Every minute or two he would stop, and doubling 
 two of his fingers and placiidg" them in his mouth, 
 emitted a whistle which sounded like that of a steam- 
 engine. Then he paused for the reply; but none 
 came. 
 
 While he was thus employed Jurak gave most of 
 his attention to the native village, just as he hunted 
 ten years before in the same place for the lost son of 
 the missionary. The house first visited was that of 
 Marriavo, where he got the food the night before, 
 aiid whose owner, long ago, was so sure the lost lad 
 had been stolen by a number of piratical sailors who 
 were skulking about the village. 
 
 He listened with close attention to the story told, 
 and then, shaking his head, made the amazing state- 
 ment: 
 
 " Alack ! he, too, was taken by the pirates !" 
 
 " Why do you think so ?" asked Jurak. 
 
 " I have seen the same men in our village. One 
 of them stopped at my door yesterday, and I gave 
 him rice and tea." 
 
 " But why should they steal one boy and leave the 
 other?" 
 
 " If I could answer questions I would do so. I am 
 sure they ran away with the lad ten years ago ; and 
 now they have taken another to fill his place, for the 
 other is a man or he is dead." 
 
A J A UNT THRO UGB J A VA. 215 
 
 Finding his friend had no real knowledge, Jurak 
 came out of his hut and pressed his inquiries else- 
 where. He failed to get the slightest knowledge ; no 
 one had seen or heard of the boy. 
 
 As the native walked thoughtfully back to the 
 ruined temple, where they had spent the previous 
 night, he asked himself whether it was possible 
 Marriavo was right in accounting for the absence of 
 Hermon Hadley. He was no more positive ten 
 years previous than he was now, and in each instance 
 he spoke of the rough, sinister-looking sailors whom 
 he had seen loitering through the village and the 
 vicinity. Could it be they had carried Hermon 
 away ? 
 
 "Without pausing to consider fuUy the improba- 
 bihty of such being the case Jurak retraced his steps 
 to the vUlage and made inquiries about the sailors. 
 He not only learned that no one else had seen any 
 such person (proof, under the circumstances, that 
 none had been present), but Marriavo was looked 
 upon by all as not exactly right in his head. The 
 sailors which he fancied he saw had no existence. 
 
 It was almost noon when Jurak, having pressed 
 his search in every place possible, went back to the 
 ruins where Eustace sat on a bowlder awaiting him. 
 The disconsolate looks of the youth told the story 
 without any questioning. Heaving a deep sigh, 
 Eustace rose to his feet. 
 
 " Jurak, doesn't this beat everything of which you 
 •vwl^eard!" 
 
216 AJA UNT THRO U&H JA VA. 
 
 " This and the other case does," was the reply of 
 the native, who dropped the butt of his gun on the 
 ground, and folding his arms on the muzzle, took an 
 attitude of deep thought. 
 
 " What do you think has become of him ?" 
 
 " I know no more about it than the baby "Woo 
 "Woo at the home of Dati, where we stayed over 
 night." 
 
 " You said the other boy might have been carried 
 off by a tiger or wild beast. I have searched all 
 around this place, and can find no traces of the tracks 
 of any animal." 
 
 "I never thought, the wild beasts came into the 
 ruins and stole the boy ; that could not have taken 
 place without arousing the rest of us ; but I beHeved 
 the lad had strayed away in his sleep and had then 
 been seized by a savage animal." 
 
 " Do you think it was so with Hermon ?" 
 
 " There are many reasons, which you must know, 
 why it isn't likely that it was ; but can you give any 
 other cause for his absence that has not a great 
 many more likely reasons why it is not true V 
 
A JA UNT THROUan JA VA. 2U 
 
 CHAPTEK XXVX 
 
 CALLING trPON THE OAHmES. 
 
 BOTH Jurak and Eustace had scrutinized with 
 the closest attention the earth around the old 
 structure in which they spent the night. They 
 bent over until their faces were as low as their 
 knees, and they looked like a couple of Shawanoes 
 hunting for the trail of some enemy. They were 
 unable to detect the slightest imprint ; but had their 
 vision been trained to the fineness of that of the 
 American Indian they would have made an import- 
 ant discovery. 
 
 "There's one thing certain," exclaimed Eustace 
 firmly, closing his Ups as he straightened up ; " I'll 
 never go back home without Hermon." 
 
 This declaration was characteristic of him who 
 made it ; but it may well be said that it did nothing 
 toward finding the missing boy, nor did it help ex- 
 plain why he was not found. 
 
 " I wiU. stay with you till we learn the truth." 
 
 But while the words were in the mouth of the 
 native he added that the missionary and his daugh- 
 ter were just as positive when the other boy was 
 
218 A J A UNT TSRO UQB J A YA. 
 
 lost. Tlie sister declared with sobs that she would 
 never leave the Sacred Mountain without him. That 
 was ten years ago, and she could not keep her word. 
 
 But Eustace shook his head. 
 
 " That was said by a girl. Do you suppose I will 
 ever walk into our house, and when Hermon's 
 mother asks me where he is will tell her I don't 
 know ?" 
 
 " You may have to do so." 
 
 " No, sir," said Eustace, more decidedly than ever. 
 The idea that he can slip away from the camp-fire 
 Mke that and the whole Javan population can't find 
 him is absurd. There's one thing that makes me 
 mad," added the youth. 
 
 "What is that?" 
 
 " I brought along that miserable pup Tweak, hop- 
 ing he would prove of some use. Hermon laughed 
 at him from the first, but I stood up for the creature. 
 He was on hand yesterday to get something to eat, 
 but then he went away, and nothing has been seen 
 of him since. If he had been here in camp la 
 night with us he would have been of some help. I . 
 there had been any violence he would have given 
 warning, or if Hermon had started off while asleep 
 he would have followed him, or barked and awak- 
 ened the rest of us." 
 
 " I don't think the dog knew enough." 
 
 ■' The dullest dog in the world would have been 
 eq^afJ to that. Eat Tsveak has not fthovi-n up to-day, 
 
A JA TINT THRO UQII JA VA. 219 
 
 and I don't suppose anything more will be seen of 
 him till he wants something to eat." 
 
 " What good could he do if he was here now ?" 
 
 "I have been wondering whether he could not 
 take the trail, as they call it in America, of Hermon,; 
 and follow it. They have dogs in England and 
 America called bloodhounds which would need only 
 a sniff at the blanket there, and they would follow 
 Hermon everywhere. No matter hqw many trails 
 crossed his — there might be hundreds — the blood- 
 hound could not be shaken off unless the person 
 took to water. He would follow Hermon through 
 woods, over rocks, on the highway — anywhere and 
 eveiywhere he went." 
 
 Eustace, as you. know, spoke the truth ; but Jurak 
 did not believe a word of it. He merely remarked : 
 
 "Tweak isn't that kind of a dog> and I have 
 never seen any such." 
 
 " I saw a couple belonging to an English gentle- 
 man in Batavia, but I hoped there were some dogs 
 in the village that knew enough to take the trail of 
 Hermon from this point." 
 
 " I do not think so, but perhaps there may be. 
 We can do nothing better than try." 
 
 "With praiseworthy promptness the two acted on 
 the idea. There are plenty of dogs in Java, though 
 the breeds are not superior. Our friends made their 
 way at once to the village and procured three of the 
 best camneB that could be found. 
 
230 A J A TINT TERO UGE JA VA. 
 
 By this time, too, it had become generally known 
 that the youth had vanished in an unaccountable 
 manner during the night, leaving nothing to show 
 what had become of him. Jurak had taken pains to 
 tell that whoever found the lad would be liberally 
 rewarded. As a consequence, when they returned 
 with the dogs they were accompanied by a half- 
 dozen young men and youths who meant to take the 
 cue from the action of the canines, and then press 
 the search with aU the skill and vigor at their com- 
 mand. 
 
 Three times as many were already pushing their 
 investigations in other quarters, some of them being 
 far away in the forest, while others were searching 
 among the ruins as closely as if on the hunt for 
 some jewel of great value. 
 
 The action of the dogs raised the hopes of Her- 
 mon. They sniffed the ground and ran back and 
 forth, as if they understood what was expected of 
 them. One uttered a sharp bark, threw his nose in 
 the air, and made a break as if he had uncovered the 
 game. The others imitated his actions, and the 
 natives, including Jurak and Eustace, dashed after 
 them all. 
 
 The dogs galloped directly eastward, leaping over 
 stones and bowlders, dashing through undergrowth, 
 and running around such obstacles as interposed 
 across their path. Once, when Eustace stepped on 
 something, he looked down and saw that he had 
 
A J A UNT THRO UOH JA VA. 23t 
 
 planted his foot directly on the nose of a sculptured 
 image which was lying on its back and staring 
 toward the sky. 
 
 The dogs hastened until, when only a short dist- 
 ance away, they came upon a weU-beaten path. 
 Turning to the right they trotted briskly forward, 
 emitting a yelp or two, and the men in a long string 
 dashed after them. But aU at once the leading 
 mongrel, with another sharp cry, wheeled about, 
 the other two doing the same, and charged back- 
 ward among the legs of the men directly behind 
 them. Several of the natives became so entangled 
 that they stumbled and fell, whereat there was 
 much more barking and shouting, and for a few 
 minutes everything was in confusion. 
 
 The discouraging feature of the proceeding was 
 its proof that if the dogs had been following the 
 trail of Hermon Hadley they had irrecoverably 
 lost it. 
 
222 ^ 'f^ VST TSBOmH JA VA. 
 
 CHAPTER XXVn. 
 
 IK THE NIOHT-TIMB. 
 
 THE END of it all was that when the middle of 
 the afternoon came the fate of Hermon Hadley 
 was as much a mystery as ever, and the dogs that 
 had been employed to take the scent had shown they 
 were unable to do so. To one so alarmed and im- 
 patient as Eustace was, it seemed that a cloud of stu- 
 pidity had fallen on men and beasts aMke. Here 
 were people who had lived all their lives among the 
 ruins, as may be said, and yet they seemed to know 
 nothing about them. The dogs which ought to have 
 been able to follow the trail were equally stupid, and 
 Eustace whispered to himself, with a shudder, that 
 it looked as if the strange story told by Jurak was 
 to be repeated. 
 
 "Suppose the days and nights go by without 
 bringing me the first clew to his whereabouts, and I 
 have to go back at last without him — ^what shaU I 
 say to his mother ? When she hears that we lost 
 Hermon, and don't know what has become of him, 
 will she be content to stay at home and never make 
 search ? No ; she will hasten to this pl^e, and never 
 give up till she learns everything." 
 
A JA UNT TBRO UOH JA VA. 223 
 
 The result of all these reflections was a stronger 
 determination than ever to learn the truth. 
 
 It was exasperating to reflect that it seemed im- 
 possible to do anything toward solving the mystery. 
 It was like trying to climb an insurmountable waU. 
 It was annoying to look at Jurak and reflect that, 
 old and experienced as he was, he was as baflBled as 
 if he were a child. 
 
 Eustace had not eaten a mouthful since the night 
 before, and did not wish anything. His feverish impa- 
 tience to learn what had become of his beloved friend 
 rendered him insensible for the time to fatigue and 
 hunger, and would not allow him to stay quiet more 
 than a few minutes in any place. Believing that 
 more could be done by separating, he kept far away 
 from Jurak, while the natives were left to prosecute 
 the search as they preferred. 
 
 It was agreed by Jurak and Eustace that if either 
 found any clew he would signal to the other by fix- 
 ing his gun. As the night approached it was 
 arranged also that a fire should be kindled on the 
 outside of the ruins where they spent the previous 
 night, and the place was to be considered the hea,d- 
 quarters of the searchers ; that is, in case any one of 
 the natives learned anything he would instantly re- 
 turn to the camp, from which he would signal to the 
 others by means of the cries peculiar to the people 
 when hunting. 
 
 "When darkness closed in over the forest, village 
 
234 A J A UNT THRO UGH JA VA. 
 
 and ruins, Eustace Hadley for the first time began 
 to feel something like despair. He had been feverish 
 and restless during the day, and had tramped so 
 much that now he became tired, and was faint from 
 the want of food. Jurak compelled him to eat quite 
 heartily and to drink some coffee which, rather 
 curiously, was prepared by Marriavo, who brought 
 it from his home and warmed it over the flames that 
 were burning outside the ruins. 
 
 He had refused to join in the hunt during the day, 
 for he declared it was useless. The boy had not 
 wandered off in the woods nor been slain by wild 
 beasts ; he had been picked up bodily by the evil- 
 looking sailors, carried to the sea-shore, and then 
 put aboard ship and taken off. 
 
 Eustace more than once found himself debating 
 the question whether it was not possible the old fel- 
 low was right, after all. Despite the improbability 
 of such being the case he had selected two of the 
 swiftest runners, and directed them to make all haste 
 by the nearest highway to the sea-shore. They were 
 to push their inquiries without cessation, and in case 
 anything at all was learned were to apply to the 
 authorities without delay. They would have little 
 trouble in securing aU the help they needed, for, as I 
 have told you, Java is one of the best governed 
 countries in the world. 
 
 Sober reflection convinced the youth that it was a 
 fool's errand on which the natives were sent, but had 
 
A JA UNT TERO U03 JA VA. 235 
 
 it not been done he would have reproached himself 
 ever afterward for not doing everything that prom- 
 ised success even in the sligniest degree. He told 
 Jurak nothing of the plan named, for he knew well 
 enough that the sagacious native had no faith in 
 it. 
 
 Hitherto the search had been prosecuted without 
 any regularity or system, for the good reason that it 
 was out of the power of any one to do so. Had the 
 missing boy been known to be in the water or lost 
 in the woods, the parties could have divided and 
 pressed the hunt according to some plan ; but, as it 
 was, no person could know where to make search. 
 
 It being the dry season, or summer-time, the 
 weather continued of the same pleasant, equable 
 character ; and at quite a late hour the moon, unob- 
 scured by clouds, rose in the heavens. Most of the 
 natives had gone to their homes, promising to re- 
 sume the search on the morrow. Naturally, they 
 could see no reason to expect success while darkness 
 lasted. Two of them stayed by the camp-fire and 
 kept it going, while Jurak and Eustace wandered 
 here and there, with no particular destination in 
 view. The youth had been on his feet nearly the 
 entire day, and as has been said, when darkness 
 closed in he was ^yorn out. He had sat down by the 
 fire intending to sleep, as most of the natives were 
 doing ; but his anxiety was too great, and he finally 
 sprang to his feet, gun in hand, and began picking 
 
UrZ& A JA UNT THUO UQH JA VA. 
 
 his W8iy toward the more mountainous region which 
 lay to the north. 
 
 His energy lasted half an hour or more, when he 
 sat down on a fallen tree and asked himself what 
 was best to do — ^if, indeed, he could do anything. 
 The trees were growiug thickly around him, so that 
 his view was not very extended in any direction. On 
 the right hand, a few rods off, could be distinguished 
 a pile of stones, some of them so shapely that no 
 doubt they were parts of images that had once 
 graced the temples whose ruins covered scores of 
 square miles of surface. 
 
 "Where can poor Hermon be?" he asked himself 
 for the hundredth time. "Last night we were 
 sitting around the camp-fire Mstening to Jurak's 
 strange story, never dreaming that anything of the 
 kind could happen to either of us. I wonder how it 
 is that he was taken and I left ? Of course if they 
 wanted the smartest and best-looking they would 
 select him ; but it is curious that neither Jurak nor 
 I was molested." 
 
 Eustace sat on the fallen tree for some fifteen 
 minutes longer, a prey to the most distressing emo- 
 tions. He kept up his courage remarkably well 
 during most of the day, but the time had come 
 when he could not drive away the despair that was 
 slowly filling his heart. 
 
 Thus he sat when the clear report of a rifle struck 
 his ear. It came from the direction of " headquar- 
 
A JA TTjSrT TBRO UGH J A YA. ^7 
 
 ters," and there could be no doubt that it was fired 
 by Jurak as a signal that he had gained some tidings 
 of the missing Hermon. 
 
 The youith bounded from the log as though he had 
 heard the hiss of a serpent behind it. He could not 
 see the ruined temple where the fire was burning, 
 but he knew the direction,, and it was not far 
 away. 
 
 The wonder was that he did not break his neck in 
 his struggles to pass the intervening distance. He 
 frequently fell on his hands and knees, and* his 
 garments suffered much ; but he did not mind such 
 slight troubles, and in much less time than would be 
 supposed he reached his destination. 
 
 The two natives were throwing fuel on the fire, 
 while Jurak stood erect, gun in hand, looking 
 eagerly around in the gloom, as though wondering 
 why Eustace did not appear. Before he saw the 
 boy the latter called out : 
 
 " HaUoo, Jurak ! Is it good or bad news ?" 
 
 " I cannot say." 
 
 "Then it is not bad." 
 
 " I hope not ; but I cannot be sure." 
 
 "What is it?" 
 
 By way of answer the native held a gun aloft, so 
 that the light from the fire fell on it. One look was 
 enough to tell Eustace that it was Hermon's gun. 
 
 " "Where did you get it ?" eagerly asked the youth. 
 
 " I found it only a little ways to the west, where 
 
228 ^ J-^ VNT TERO ma JA VA. 
 
 you and I and the others must have walked by it 
 many times to-day." 
 
 " How long ago was that ?" 
 
 " I cannot say — ^but it was a little while." 
 
 " Did you fire your gun ?" 
 
 " Not until I reached the camp-fire ; I wanted to 
 look over the weapon by the light of the blaze. I 
 expected to find you here, and when I saw you not 
 I fired my gun." 
 
 Eustace reached out and took the weapon. It was 
 with strange feelings that he grasped the stock and 
 barrel which he had held so often, and which be- 
 longed to his beloved cousin. 
 
 " Halloo, it's broken !" he abruptly called out. 
 
 Jurak stepped forward, and noticed for the first 
 time that the hammer had been snapped off as 
 though struck a blow by some heavy object. The 
 gun was useless. 
 
 This was the only injury the piece had suffered, 
 and a close inspection could detect nothing else 
 worth noting. 
 
 " Where did you find it, Jurak ?" 
 
 The native turned about and pointed off in the 
 gloom- 
 
 " Over yonder. It was covered with dirt and 
 leaves, so that it would not have been seen had I 
 not struck it with my foot. Even then it was not 
 recognized in the darkness until I stooped over. I 
 would not have taken the pains to do even that had 
 
A . JA UNT THRO UGH J A VA. 339 
 
 I not caught the gleam of the silver on the stock, on 
 which a little moonlight fell. I was sure it was the 
 gun of Hermon, and brought it back to the 
 fire." 
 
 " Did you make no search around there ?" 
 
 "I did not forget that. I called his name and 
 moved softly in many directions. I was dis- 
 appointed, for that has been the rule all day." 
 
 The recovery of the rifle naturally set the two to 
 speculating and guessing again. They sought to ex- 
 plain it in many ways ; but as none of the theories 
 were right, it is not necessary to mention them here. 
 They were compelled to admit that nothing could 
 be done that night, and weary and saddened, 
 Eustace wrapped his blanket about his shoulders and 
 lie down, leaving Jurak seated and smoking his 
 pipe, while the two natives were squatted on the 
 ground a short distance off, talking together with as 
 much animation as though they were arranging to 
 go on some pleasure-excursion. 
 
 It will be admitted by all that the outlook was 
 bad. The chances were very much against Hermon 
 Hadley. He had now been gone twenty-four hours. 
 If alive, it would seem impossible that he could have 
 remained undiscovered so long, since he would be 
 sure to put forth every possible effort to rejoin or at 
 least to communicate with his friends. 
 
 Eustace was as determined as ever to press the 
 search on the morrow, but he could not fail to see 
 
230 A JA UJSTT TERO UGH JA YA. 
 
 that the ground for hope was of the most fragile 
 nature. 
 
 He was gradually sinking into unconsciousness 
 when he caught the faint footfall of some animal. 
 Instantly his senses were on the alert and he raised 
 his head. The couple were stiU sitting on the 
 ground, talking in low tones ; but Jurak had also 
 lain down, and seemed to be asleep. 
 
 At the same moment he observed Tweak, the dog 
 that had been gone so long, standing near, wagging 
 his tail and looking wistfully at him. 
 
 "Why didn't you com© back long ago?" asked 
 Eustace angrily, " If you had been here last night 
 you might have saved him ; but now all you want is 
 something to eat, which you haven't earned and 
 sha'n't have." 
 
 The youth dropped his head on his arm, with his 
 back to the canine. The latter came closer and 
 whined ; then he walked around the prostrate boy 
 and continued his whining. Eustace raised up again 
 and asked : 
 
 "What's the matter, Tweak?" 
 
 The dog trotted a few steps, then whined and ran 
 back again. 
 
 " He wants me to follow him," said the lad in an 
 awed whisper, as he rose to a sitting position, " Can 
 it be he has found out something about Hermon ? I 
 shall soon know !" he exclaimed, rising hastily to his 
 feet and starting off under the guidance of Tweak. 
 
A JA UNT THBO UOH J A YA. 231 
 
 'TEs-x^nfi. 
 
 HOW IT CAME ABOUT. 
 
 NOW THAT the friends of Hermon Hadley 
 have hunted so long for him without success, 
 let us take up the search and see what we can do. 
 
 It is more than likely that every one of my 
 readers has learned by experience how apt one is to 
 dream of that which has unusually interested him 
 during the day or evening before going to sleep. 
 Have you not puzzled your brain over some problem 
 until in sheer weariness you gave it up and went to 
 bed? And has not the brain continued its work 
 after your eyes were closed, and perhaps straightened 
 out the whole thing for you before daylight ? 
 
 If this has not happened, you have dreamed 
 vividly over some matter which absorbed your 
 thoughts when last awake, and perhaps you have 
 cried out and struggled in your sleep. The affecting 
 incident told by Jurak produced a strong impression 
 on Hermon. He lay awake a long time, and when 
 his eyes closed his brain was topsy-turvy. As near 
 as can be learned it was near morning when he sud- 
 denly rose from his blanket, and rifle in hand 
 
m A JA nm mm ms ja ta. 
 
 walked so softly out of the ruins where they Wera 
 lying that neither Jurak nor Eustace was dis- 
 turbed. 
 
 Hermon was not a somnambulist, and had never 
 been known to walk in his sleep ; but he did so when 
 he stole out of the ruins and in the dim moonlight 
 began picking his way toward the mountainous re- 
 gion which lay to the north. He was doing so 
 in obedience to a strange impulse which, in his 
 peculiar state, he could not refuse to obey. 
 
 He had not gone far when the conviction came 
 over him that he was doing wrong in taking his gun 
 with him. He laid it on the ground, therefore, and 
 walked forward with the care and skiU which per- 
 sons in his condition often show. All at once, and 
 without the least warning, he dropped through an 
 opening in the ground and disappeared. 
 
 This opening was just large enough to admit his 
 body, and was so entirely concealed by the bushes 
 growing near that a person could step within a few 
 inches of its margin (as had been the case) without 
 suspecting its existence. Hermon fell about fifty 
 feet, and it need not be said tliat he was thoroughly 
 awakened when he landed. 
 
 Had not his fall been broken he must have been 
 killed, for the distance was enough to destroy life in 
 any one ; but he struck against the side of the cham- 
 ber in going down, loosening so much dirt, vines and 
 debris that it was driven in front of him, and formed 
 
A JA UNT THRO UQH J A VA . 23;) 
 
 a cushion on which he was sitting with outspread 
 feet when his descent suddenly stopped. 
 
 Who can imagine the feelings of the youth when 
 his senses came to him? He had been scratched 
 and bruised and jarred ; his hat had fallen off, and 
 he had gone down into some place of whose nature 
 he had not the remotest idea. He would have 
 believed he was still dreaming but for the reminders 
 in his body of many pains. 
 
 " "What can this mean ?" he asked himself, sitting 
 stiU and peering in every direction. But the dark- 
 ness was without the slightest ray, and when he 
 looked upward he could see nothing of the opening 
 through which he must have entered. It was so 
 shaded by grass and bushes that none of the faint 
 moonlight could reach it. 
 
 But Eustace and Hermon always carried matches 
 with them, and the younger had a number of waxen 
 ones in a small rubber case. Drawing this forth, he 
 struck one on the bottom, and as it blazed out held 
 it above his head and again looked about him. 
 
 The radius of illumination was not large, but it 
 told an interesting story. He was in a chamber or 
 under-ground apartment some fifty feet wide, and as 
 he afterward learned (for the single match could not 
 reveal it) more than twice as long. It was quite 
 regular in its outhnes, and in many places he could 
 trace the forms of the rough stones which composed 
 the walls. On one side the wall had crumbled a 
 
g34 A JA UNT THBO UOS JA YA. 
 
 great deal, so that it lost much of its perpendicu- 
 larity. It had also been greatly overrun with ding- 
 ing vines. Fortunately the lad feU among these, 
 and, as has been shown, they broke his descent. 
 Many of the vines had been torn loose and lay at the 
 bottom of the cavern, or whatever it may be called. 
 
 By the time Hermon learned this much his match 
 went out. He struck another, and then, knowing 
 there were no more than a dozen in the box, saw he 
 must be sparing in their use. It would be a great 
 calamity to be left in utter darkness. 
 
 The chamber must have been constructed ages 
 before by the Hindu occupants of the country, and 
 of course bore some relation to the temples above 
 ground. No doubt many other similar excavations 
 existed in the vicinity. The vines which grew over 
 the walls on every side had been there so long that 
 some of the trunks were several inches in diameter, 
 and all were clustered with dead twigs and branches 
 which would burn readily. 
 
 "With the help of another match he gathered a lot 
 of this stuff together, and holding the flame to its 
 base for the few minutes it burned, succeeded in 
 igniting it. As the flame spread he collected more, 
 unto, by working actively he soon had a large pile. 
 One disadvantage was that it burned out very 
 rapidly, and large as was the amount gathered, it 
 could not last a long time. So far as he could see 
 there was nothing else within reach that could serve 
 as fuel. 
 
A JA UNT THROnan JA VA. 235 
 
 But the blaze fully lit up the interior, and for the 
 first time he gained a fair view of it. Stepping away 
 from the blaze, so that the glare did not interfere, 
 his eyes roamed over the interior. 
 
 While the sides of the chamber had been fashioned 
 with some regard to proportion, the roof was very 
 irregular. It was broken and jagged, as if made by 
 nature alone. No doubt advantage had been taken 
 of the work of some earthquake by those who had 
 given the place its shape. 
 
 It took some time before the youth could locate 
 the opening through which he had entered, but 
 finally he discovered it far up in the roof. It was 
 smaller than he supposed, but, as he grimly said to 
 himself, it was large enough to answer. 
 
 Looking down at his clothing, Hermon saw they 
 were sadly torn and soiled, while his hands and face 
 were scratched, and the aches and pains in his limbs 
 proved how roughly he had been handled. He was 
 bright-witted enough to suspect the truth. 
 
 " I have been dreaming by the fire, and got up 
 while all of us were asleep and wandered over the 
 mountain until I feU into this place. I was never 
 known to rise in my sleep before, but it must have 
 been because I felt so bad over that story Jurak 
 told." 
 
 Naturally his absorbing thought was as to how he 
 was to get out of the place. 
 
 " Neither Jurak nor Eustace know of my going 
 
236 A JA UNT THRO TI&E J A VA. 
 
 away, for if they had they wouldn't have let me go. 
 Since those vines helped me down, I wonder whether 
 they won't help me up ?" 
 
 " Stepping to the wall, he found they were thick, 
 and some of them clung as tightly to the stones as 
 if wired fast. No doubt they would support much • 
 weight, though if they were torn loose at the top, as 
 many of them had been by the violence with which 
 he struck them, they could be readily pulled away. 
 
 But with his native pluck and energy the young 
 American began at once to climb the crumbling 
 wall toward the narrow opening, fifty feet above. 
 To one accustomed to such activity and trials of 
 strength this was not difficult, and he went upward 
 almost as if he was climbing the side of a house by 
 means of a ladder. 
 
 This looked hopeful ; but the misgivings with 
 which he started increased with every foot he as- 
 cended until he had climbed a little more than half 
 way. The higher he went, +]ie sparser and weaker 
 became the vines. Thougu, as is the case with 
 under-ground vegetation, they inclined toward the 
 opening through which a little daylight sometimes 
 made its way, and though this growth had continued 
 from time immemorial, it was not vigorous enough 
 near the roof to support the weight of the climber. 
 A good deal of it had been torn away by his forcible 
 entrance, and that which was left was much weak- 
 ened. 
 
Hwnaw B»4le7 Ipst Sa tfr« cove.— <Sw p<if 9 ^^ 
 
238 A JA UNT THRO UGE JA VA. 
 
 Hermon went upward with the utmost care, test- 
 ing the rib of each creeping vine before trusting a 
 part of his weight upon it. The greatest caution 
 was needed in the use of hands and feet, as any one 
 can testify who has undertaken anything like such a 
 task. 
 
 But half-way up he took warning from the tear- 
 ing away of a vine which he seized. Holding him- 
 self stationary, he looked to the roof, which was 
 plainly shown by the reflection of the fire burning 
 below. 
 
 One glance was enough to prove the utter impos- 
 sibility of the task he had undertaken. Before he 
 could reach a point within a dozen feet of the top 
 he would be without any support at aU. If the 
 vines were twice as vigorous it would be beyond his 
 power to make his way through the opemng if he 
 should reach it, since there would necessarily be a 
 moment when he would have to let go with his 
 hande,' raise himself upward on his feet, and then 
 catch the sides of the opening and draw himself 
 through. 
 
 In some places, as I have shown, the side of the 
 wall had crumbled so much that it lacked coherence, 
 so that in one sense it may be said the vines them- 
 selves supported the wall. Should Hermon climb 
 further, more than likely a sudden yielding would 
 foUow, and he would be less fortunate in his fall 
 than bef ora 
 
A JA UNT THRO UGB JA VA. S39 
 
 " It's no use," he said, with less discouragement 
 than would be supposed ; " I can't get out of this 
 place by that door." 
 
 And then, with Mie same care he had used from 
 the first, he began his descent. This became easier 
 the lower he went, until in a few minutes he leaped 
 lightly to the ground and threw more fuel on the 
 flames. 
 
 Though the youth was in a most trying situation 
 be did not despair. Because he saw no ready way 
 out of his difficulty he was not prepared to say that 
 none such existed. He believed that while there 
 was life there was hope. 
 
 " I wonder whether there is any other egress than 
 that by which I entered ?" he mused, staring at the 
 gloomy walls in the hope of finding something of 
 the kind. 
 
 Throwing on enough more fuel to send an 
 illumination the entire length of the interior, he 
 moved rapidly hither and thither in his search. He 
 thought possibly there was a series of under-ground 
 chambers connected with each other, though even if 
 he should be able to pass from the one into another 
 it was not likely his situation would be improved 
 thereby. 
 
 The climbing vines of which I have spoken were 
 scant and puny as they receded from the vicinity of 
 the opening. There can be little if any vigorous 
 vegetable growth without sunlight, and little as was 
 
m A. iA Mf TMUO m^ U VA. 
 
 the quantity that entered the chamber, it exerted a 
 marked influence in its immediate neighborhood. 
 
 But the search, prosecuted as it was under many 
 diiliculties, satisned Hermon that if he ever left the 
 place it must be through the same passage which 
 admitted him. 
 
 " And how can this be done ?" 
 
 This was the question which finally brought him 
 to a halt near the fire, with his eyes turned upward 
 toward the opening, as if he expected to read the 
 answer there. 
 
 "I can never reach that without help, that's 
 certain," was his truthful conclusion ; " and where is 
 the help to come from ?" 
 
 He knew that as a matter of course he would be 
 missed in the morning, and Jurak and Eustace could 
 be counted on to do everything possible to find him. 
 They could not track him unaided, and he felt that 
 it was doubtful whether any dog could be found 
 that would do it. Tweak being left out of the cal- 
 culation, he had httle belief, from what he had seen 
 of the native canines, that they would prove any 
 better. 
 
 The youth's manner of entrance was such that 
 he could know little of the outward appearance of 
 the hole in the ground, but it seemed that a diligent 
 hunt on the part of his friends and others ought to 
 find the spot. Had he known the truth, he would 
 have been less hopeful of that means of escape. 
 
A. J A UNT THRO UOH J A VA. 241 
 
 CHAPTEE XXIX. 
 
 WALLED IN ON EVEET HAND. 
 
 IT IS hard for a strong, active boy, placed in a 
 situation like that of Hermon Hadley, to fold his 
 arms and sit down with the conviction that he can do 
 nothing to help himself. "While our young friend 
 did not exactly do this, yet he was forced to that 
 state of mind. 
 
 One dread was with him while making his circuit 
 of the chamber — he expected to come in contact 
 with some of the deadly serpents found in Java. It 
 seemed to him that it was just the place for them ; 
 but when he returned to the fire he was quite sure 
 there were none near him. He had seen and heard 
 nothing of them, and the warmth from the fire 
 would have drawn them from their hiding-places. 
 It was a great relief to believe he was not to share 
 the place with such unwelcome neighbors. 
 
 Hermon found his watch had not been injured by 
 his fall into the chamber, and he was therefore able 
 to note the passage of time. When he looked at its 
 face he saw that it lacked a couple of hours of day- 
 light. 
 
 " They won't miss me till morning," was his cou- 
 
243 A J A UNT THBO UQE J A VA. 
 
 elusion, " and then it will be some time before they'll 
 think anything is wrong. Pretty soon they'll begin 
 to hunt, and some of them ought to pass near that 
 opening up there. About that time I'll begin to 
 make a noise." 
 
 The youth felt that sleep was out of the question. 
 His body still ached, and he could not help asking 
 himself the question, " WiU they find me ?" 
 
 The dread that they might fail to do so made it 
 impossible to keep still for any length of time. He 
 sat^down by the fire and looked into the embers 
 while he thought and thought. Then, starting up, 
 he walked back and forth through the dimly-lit 
 chamber. He occupied himself in gathering all the 
 fuel he could, so that he might keep his camp-fire, as 
 he regarded it, going as long as possible. Now that 
 there was a good bed of coals it was not necessary 
 that the wood should be so dry, and he collected 
 everything obtainable. 
 
 With the help of his knife he loosened the tiny but 
 innumerable tendrils which held the vines in place 
 and pulled down yards of them at a time. Often, when 
 the mass of branches and leaves came tumbling about 
 his head and shoulders, he started with the fear that 
 among them was a serpent striving to wind itself 
 about his neck or to strike him ; but in every instance 
 he was relieved to find no cause for such fear. 
 
 Hermon continued work until it seemed to him 
 there was little left to gather, and he had enough to 
 
A J A UNT THRO UGH J A VA. 243 
 
 keep the fire going several days. Heaped near the 
 blaze on the flinty floor, it made the best kind of a 
 bed, on which he threw himself. The feeling was so 
 grateful, and his weariness had been so increased by 
 his labor, that unexpectedly to himself he sank into 
 a sleep which lasted several hours. 
 
 When he opened his eyes and recalled his situation 
 he saw the fire was down to a few embers so 
 covered with ashes that everything was dark around 
 him. His first act was to stir these embers and to 
 throw on more fuel. This quickly crackled a'nd 
 blazed, until once more the whole interior was 
 illuminated. Then, when he looked at his watch, he 
 saw that the sun had been shining on the earth 
 above for more than two hours. 
 
 " They're at it now," said Hermon, thinking of the 
 alarm that Jurak and Eustace must be feeling at 
 that moment over his disappearance. " I shouldn't 
 wonder if they're not far from the opening, and 
 if they can only find a dog that will track 
 me it won't take long to discover what hole I went 
 through." 
 
 He now began hallooing with might and main, and 
 kept it up until hoarse. Then, with the aid of his 
 tongue and fingers, he sent out a blast which 
 reverberated from end to end of the chamber until 
 his ears tingled. This was done again and again, 
 after which he drew his revolver, with the intention 
 of using up most of the cartridges of that. But he 
 
244 A J A TINT THRO UBS J A VA. 
 
 had been less fortunate with his pistol than with his 
 watch. The hammer was injured in such a manner 
 that it could not be fired until after repairing. 
 
 " I don't know that it makes any difference," he 
 concluded, returning the weapon to its place, " for 
 the report won't travel as far as the whistle, which 
 Eustace will know, provided he hears it." 
 
 Having done aU that was possible in the way of 
 signaling, he moved back and listened for some 
 evidence that he had been heard. He was not very 
 hopeful of success, and minute after minute passed 
 with the profound stillness unbroken. If any people 
 traversed the flinty roof overhead, the sound of their 
 feet was so muffled that not the least indication 
 reached the straining ear of the listener. 
 
 But while gazing upward Hermon was able to dis- 
 tinguish very faintly the irregular outlines of the 
 opening through which he had descended. This was 
 proof that the sun was shining above ; and though 
 the grass and bushes shrouded the entrance, yet 
 enough of the sunlight penetrated them to reveal 
 the place. 
 
 " That's it, sure enough," was his conclusion. He 
 understood, too, why the outlines were so dimly re- 
 vealed. " That looks bad for me, because it will be 
 hard for them to find the spot." 
 
 Then he resorted to his signaling again, keeping it 
 np until he became so tired he was forced to stop. 
 
 In this manner the hours dragged slowly by until 
 
A U VNf TSM ma SA VA, 245 
 
 kis watch showed the afternoon was half gone. The 
 fire was still burning, though with less vigor, for he 
 was gradually reaching the belief that even if de- 
 hvered from his peril he would have to stay a long 
 time, and he could not bear the thought 6f being 
 shrouded in the impenetrable darkness which would 
 otherwise fill the place. The fire, therefore, was 
 permitted to burn so low that the chamber was only 
 partly illuminated, and the darkness beyond seemed 
 the more profound and impressive from the contrast 
 
246 A J A UNT TERO UGE JA VA. 
 
 OHAPTEE XXX. 
 
 AS UNEXPECTED FRIEND. 
 
 HERMON HADLEY carefully rewound his 
 ■watcli and looked intently upward, but was 
 unable to distinguish the outlines of the opening 
 which had admitted him to the chamber. It was 
 night, and darkness reigned above as it did beneath 
 the earth. 
 
 Beside the question which was ever present with 
 the youth, there was another that could not be put 
 aside. He had been twenty-four hours without 
 drink or food, and so long as he remained in the 
 chamber it was impossible to procure a particle of 
 either. The only thing in the way of vegetation to 
 be found was the growth of vines. These bore 
 nothing in the shape of fruit, and had they done so 
 he would have been afraid of eating it, through 
 dread of poisoning. Anxious and frightened as he 
 was he could not keep off the gnawing hunger and 
 thirst, which steadily grew in their intensity. 
 
 As we aU know, thirst is much more distressing 
 than hunger; and this is especially true of warm 
 countries, where the want of water is quickly felt. 
 One end of the chamber seemed to be more damp 
 
A JA VNT THRO UGH JA VA. 247 
 
 and moist than elsewhere, but it was not enough so 
 to exude a drop of water. 
 
 Loth to admit his helplessness, Hermon rarely re- 
 mained on the pile «f vines, except when asleep, 
 more than a few minutes at a time. Then he would 
 rise and walk around his prison, peering here and 
 there with the idea of finding some peg on which to 
 hang a slight hope. "When the hour grew late, and 
 he thought he could sleep, he stirred the flames to 
 greater vigor than ever and started on a last round, 
 as it may be called. 
 
 He was approaching the furthest corner, away 
 over on the west, when he discovered something 
 that he had not noticed before. He could not see it 
 distinctly, but suspecting its nature he hastened to 
 the fire, picked up the largest brand, and circling it 
 over his head until it broke into a vigorous blaze 
 walked back. 
 
 There in the corner lay what had once been a liv- 
 ing person like himself. The clothing was perfect, 
 but he who had worn it had long since crumbled 
 away until only a skeleton remained. 
 
 There could be no mistaking the identity of the 
 remains ; they were those of the youth who disap- 
 peared ten years before, and of whom no trace was 
 ever found. He had wandered off from his friends 
 as had Hermon, and the same strange fatality had 
 caused him to fall through the opening which pre- 
 cipitated the young American into his dismal prison. 
 
§48 A JA UNT TERO UQE JA TA. 
 
 Hermon paused only long enough to tal^e a hasty 
 survey of the sad sight, when he walked to the fire 
 and threw his torch upon the flames. 
 
 "It is the strangest thing I ever knew that I 
 should follow in the footsteps of that poor fellow. 
 His friends, Jurak told us, hunted long after all 
 hope seemed gone, and there was nothing that could 
 be done which they did not do ; and yet he was left 
 to die here, as I also may be left to die.'' 
 
 The unfortunate lad must have fallen into the 
 chamber in the same manner as had Hermon, for 
 had he been killed, his remains would not have been 
 found where they were. He may have been badly 
 wounded. 
 
 It was a great shook to the young American, and 
 when he reached the pile he sat down in a more 
 despairing frame of mind than he had felt since his 
 misfortune. 
 
 " Can it be that I, too, aip. to die here ?" he whis- 
 pered, looking furtively around. " Must Jurak and 
 Eustace go back home and say I was lost and no one 
 could find me ? Is the opening through which I fell 
 so hidden from sight that it cannot be found by the 
 most careful searching? It would seem so from 
 what Jurak told us; but these ruins are so well 
 known that some of the natives ought to have 
 learned all about the under-ground chambers." 
 
 The hour was late, but there was no sensation of 
 drowsiness to clos© the eyes of Hermon Hadley. 
 
A J A TTNT TSRO tTOB JA VA. M^ 
 
 All such feeling was driven away by the sad dis- 
 covery just made. Brave as he was, he was un- 
 nerved for the time by it. 
 
 Sitting in this disconsolate mood, he paid no heed 
 to the fact that the fire was burning low. Looking 
 gloomily into the faint embers, all at once he be- 
 came aware of a slight noise overhead near the 
 opening. Starting to his feet, he glanced aloft and 
 called out : 
 
 "Halloo! who's there? Is that you, Jurak, or 
 Eustace?" 
 
 He listened, but no reply came to him. 
 
 " It must be some animal," was his thought ; and 
 then he shouted in a louder voice than before : 
 
 " Halloo, up there ! "Who are you ?" 
 
 He heard, by way of answer, the short bark of a 
 dog. 
 
 " My gracious I" he exclaimed, " I believe that is 
 Tweak!" 
 
260 ^ /.; '" -^T TWUO UQE JA VA. 
 
 XmAPTER-XXXL 
 
 EESCUED. 
 
 HERMON HADLEY held Ms breath. Again 
 he heard that peculiar cat-like bark with 
 which he had become familiar on his jaunt through 
 Java. It was the dog Tweak. Aye, indeed ; there 
 could be no mistake about it. 
 
 " Halloo, Tweak !" shouted the youth. " If that's 
 you, and you'll do all you can to help get me out of 
 this place, I'll beg your pardon for all the mean 
 things I ever said about you !" 
 
 The canine seemed to be pawing at the opening 
 as though the boy were a squirrel which he was 
 digging out. He gave utterance to the short, quick 
 barks which his species often emit at such times, and 
 Harmon continually called to him, so that the brute 
 might feel sure no error was made in the matter. 
 
 The lad threw more fuel on the flames until they 
 blazed high and the interior of the huge chamber 
 was fully illuminated. Then he peered upward, in 
 the hope of catching sight of the animal. Once he 
 fancied he saw the sparkle of his eyes as he thrust 
 his nose downward and snuffed and clawed, but 
 more than likely he was mistaken. 
 
A J A VST THRO UGH JA VA. 251 
 
 " Say, old dog, I'll help put you on a pension for 
 life if you'll stick to it till Eustace and Jurak come !" 
 
 Again he listened, but all was still. He shouted 
 to the canine, whom he could have hugged for grati- 
 tude ; but the bark was silent. 
 
 " I suppose he's tired and is resting awhile. Now 
 if, instead of hunting for me, my friends wiU search 
 for Tweak, they will accomplish something." 
 
 It was the second night of Hermon's imprison- 
 ment, and the hour was so late that he did not be- 
 lieve any help could come to him before the morrow. 
 It was not likely his friends would continue their 
 search during the darkness, and it would take some 
 time after the rising of the sun to trace him. 
 
 " I may as well try to sleep," was his conclusion, 
 as he threw himself on the pile of vines, which had 
 been very much reduced in size. He was now in 
 such a hopeful frame of mind that he felt it possible 
 to sleep. 
 
 " Halloo ! Hermon, old fellow !" 
 
 The youth was sinking into drowsiness when he 
 was brought to his feet by the voice of his cousin 
 Eustace, who shouted down the opening. The elder, 
 as the reader will recall, had been attracted by the 
 actions of Tweak when he approached the camp-fire, 
 and followed him through the moonlight until the 
 canine stopped beside the bush which concealed the 
 
 ■ entrance to the subterranean chamber. The first 
 
 ■ liought of Eustace was that the dead body of hi* 
 
252 A JA TINT TEBO UGS JA FA. 
 
 friend lay beneath, but he carefully investigated. 
 Guarded as he was in his movements, he missed by a 
 hair's-breadth shooting down the opening, just as 
 his cousin had done. 
 
 Catching the bushes and recoiling just in time, he 
 called the name of his cousin ; and the latter was not 
 more startled by the hail than was the elder when 
 the cheery response came back : 
 
 " It is I, Eustace ! Sound in body, but thirsty, 
 hungry, and anxious to get out !" 
 
 " "Well, have patience and we'll give you a lift." 
 
 The delight of the lads was so great that they could 
 Hot help chaffing each other for a few minutes. 
 
 " Can't you drop in and see a fellow, Eustace ?" 
 
 " I came near doing so a minute ago but changed 
 my mind. "When I call on a person, I prefer to go 
 into his parlor rather than his cellar." 
 
 " So do I ; but when a fellow leaves his cellar-door 
 open there is no telling who will fall into it. My 
 entrance, however, was made in the best style. 
 Where's Jurak?" 
 
 " Waiting down by the old temple, two or three 
 hundred yards away." 
 
 " How did you learn I was here ?" 
 
 " Tweak came to camp and acted so queerly that I 
 knew something was up, and I followed him." 
 
 " Is he there with you ?" 
 
 "Yes." 
 
 " I wish you would apologize to him for all the 
 
A JA mrf Tsno ms ja va. 253 
 
 slighting remarks I have made. I take them all 
 back, and henceforth shall speak of him in the most 
 respectful terms." 
 
 Hermon felt a kink in his neck from looking 
 upward so much, and he now lay down on his back 
 on the pile and called to his cousin, asking him how 
 he proposed to help him. 
 
 " "We shall have to get a rope and let it down to 
 you. How deep is it ?" 
 
 " About fifty feet, as near as I can guess." 
 
 " Well, I will now go back to Jurak and explain it 
 all to him. He will have to go to the village for the 
 rope, and we may have to wait till morning." 
 
 " All right ; do what you think best." 
 
 Eustace called good-night, and with a glad heart 
 set out to acquaint Jurak with the joyful news. 
 Tweak trotted in advance, no doubt conscious of the 
 good deed he had done and the vast advance he had 
 made in the estimation of his acquaintances. 
 
 Before the fire was reached he met the native, to 
 whom he told the news. Jurak was not excitable, 
 but he sprang from the ground, struck his thigh with 
 the flat of his hand, and uttered a fervent ejaculation 
 of thankfulness. He started to hasten to the spot, 
 but changed his mind and hurried to the village. 
 The hour was so late and he found so much difficulty 
 in procuring what he wanted that he finally decided 
 to wait till morning. He therefore rejoined Eustace, 
 and the two lay down by the fire, talking long 
 
254 A J A UNT TBRO UOE JA VA. 
 
 and earnestly together. The native gave it as his 
 opinion that the missionary's son had lost his life 
 from a similar misfortune, but as Hermon had 
 not yet made known his discovery, it remained a 
 conjecture for the time. 
 
 In the meantime Hermon had fallen asleep, though 
 it was almost daylight when he did so, and he did 
 not open his eyes until aroused by the shouts from 
 above. He sprang to his feet, called back that he 
 was ready and waiting, and then for the last time 
 renewed the smouldering fire untU once more it 
 filled the chamber with light. 
 
 Looking aloft toward the dimly-outlined opening, 
 he saw the end of a rope dangling and descending 
 hke an attenuated serpent. He waited patiently 
 until it came within reach, when he seized it, and 
 when enough more was at command coiled it about 
 his body, then around his arms, and shouted : 
 
 "'Now show how much muscle you've got up^ 
 there ! My gracious !" 
 
 The words were hardly uttered when he was lifted 
 a dozen feet with great swiftness, and continued to 
 ascend with such speed that he shouted to them to 
 be careful or they would fracture his head against 
 the rocks above. Thereupon Eustace, who was 
 directing operations, allowed him to dangle awhile 
 like a huge pendulum, until Hermon inquired with 
 a yell what the matter could be. 
 
 TJp again he went, and before he was aware of it 
 
A JA JJ£T TERO UQH JA VA. 255 
 
 the mountain seemed to cast him forth, and he fell 
 prostrate on the earth at the feet of Eustace, Jurak 
 and a dozen natives, who had been puUing at the 
 rope. The rescued lad could hardly see in the glare 
 of light (because he had been so long in the dark- 
 ness), and despite his sturdy frame was so overcome 
 that for several minutes he was too weak to stand. 
 
 But every preparation had been made for him. 
 Good, cool water and delicious food were there in 
 abundance, and he ate as an American boy may be 
 expected to do when he has been a long time 
 on short allowance. 
 
 Hermon was in such a phght, especially as re- 
 garded his clothing, that he and Eustace went to the 
 house of Marriavo in the village to recruit and have 
 his garments repaired. "While there, Hermon told 
 the story of the body which stUl lay in the chamber 
 where he had been imprisoned more than twenty- 
 four hours. 
 
 His narration, it need not be saio, produced a pro- 
 found impression. Marriavo asked many questions, 
 and told the lad he ought to have searched the cloth- 
 ing for evidence, or rather mementos, that could be 
 returned to his friends. The good-hearted but some- 
 what cranky host was compelled to give up his 
 theory that marauding sailors had carried away the 
 boys, since the evidence was too direct to be gain- 
 said ; but he insisted that the evil pirates had been 
 prowling through the village, and that they would 
 
256 AJA UNT TEEO U&H JA VA. 
 
 have abducted Hermon had he not fallen into the 
 subterranean chamber just in time to save himself 
 from such a fate. 
 
 There vras no one in the settlement that could re- 
 pair the riile and pistol of Ilennon, but the lad was 
 in such high spirits that he insisted they should start 
 homeward without delay, with the intention of doing 
 considerable hunting on the road. He consented, 
 
 owever, that horses should be procured, and the re- 
 -■jrn trip was begun under more advantageous terms 
 than was the jaunt from home. As good fortune 
 wouIJ have it, they had not gone far when Jurak 
 was able to borrow a weapon from an acquaint- 
 ance. 
 
 The first point at which they made a halt worth 
 noting was near the coffee plantation where Hermon 
 had shot the leopard. True to the promise made 
 him, the skin was awaiting his return. It had been 
 stretched in the sun, and though not perfectly dry 
 was in condition to take away. He distributed a 
 number of presents among his friends, thanked them 
 kindly, and the little party continued northward 
 toward home. 
 
 "When the most mountainous region was reached 
 the desire of the boys for another hunt became so 
 strong that they left their animals with a friend, 
 and the three entered a deep forest for the purpose 
 of engaging in their favorite sport. 
 
 « This looks like a good gun," said, Hermon, sur- 
 
A JA tJNT TURO UGS JA VA. 25? 
 
 veying his weapon doubtingly, " but I don't believe 
 it is as good as my own was." 
 
 " That's an old excuse for poor marksmanship," 
 said Eustace. " A sportsman is like every one else — 
 he will lay the cause of failure to anything except 
 his own blundering stupidity." 
 
 '' I don't know that I have had any more failures 
 than a certain young gentleman I could name," re- 
 plied Hermon, too happy to feel anything like 
 resentment at the good-natured chaffing of his 
 cousin, whom he could not have loved more had he 
 been his own brother. " The fact is, I think I was a 
 little ahead on the way out." 
 
 "Oh! some persons are born lucky," airily re- 
 sponded Eustace ; " but it can't last forever." 
 
 " No ; for if it did, you might gain a part of the 
 skill of an ordinary hunter. "Wait tiU we have a fair 
 chance." 
 
 " There it is !" exclaimed his companion, pointing 
 to a bird sitting on a limb not more than fifty feet 
 away. 
 
 " What sort of an animal is that ?" asked Hermon, 
 staring at the object, while he cautiously made his 
 weapon ready. 
 
 Eustace asked Jurak and then replied : 
 
 " It is called a lorikeet." 
 
 " That's what I thought," remarked Hermon, who 
 had never heard the name before. " Now see him 
 vanish as though he never existed." 
 
858 ^ JA UNT Timo VOB JA TA. 
 
 Bringing his gun to a level, he sighted carefully, 
 while the others watched the result with breathless 
 interest. 
 
 Bang ! and the bird never stirred. 
 
 Eustace and Jurak broke into hearty laughter, as 
 much at the look of dismay on the countenance of 
 the young American as at his wof ul failure. 
 
 Then, as soon as Eustace could control his mirth, 
 he brought his own weapon to his shoulder and let 
 fly. The bird whizzed through the leaves and 
 dropped to the ground as if struck by a grape-shot. 
 
 "That was a mean piece of business," said Her- 
 mon. " After I put a bullet right through his body, 
 killing him so quickly that he didn't know it, you 
 must wake him up with the noise of your gun. I 
 shouldn't be surprised if you would claim that you 
 killed him !" 
 
 And Hermon stared at his laughing companion 
 with an assumption of anger that deceived no one. 
 
 "Oh, no," said the latter, his face becoming 
 serious ; " I merely roused the bird to the fact that 
 he was dead — that's all." 
 
 "Very well; don't go to getting up any other 
 yarns when you come to teU your father about our 
 trip, after we reach home." 
 
 Late that afternoon, when the hunters were look- 
 ing about for an inviting place to camp, a kubin or 
 flying cat suddenly skurried from almost under 
 their feet. Hermon hastily aimed and fired. The 
 
A J A UNT THRO UGH JA VA. 250 
 
 animal was hit, but would have got away had not 
 the youth dashed forward and finished it with the 
 butt of his weapon. 
 
 Eustace looked very serious. 
 
 " Hermon, why are you so extravagant ?" 
 
 ""What do you mean ?" 
 
 "You shouldn't waste your ammunition in that 
 reckless style. Why don't you run up and whsick 
 over the head whatever game you see, and save your 
 cartridges? If you can't catch it, Jurak and I will 
 hold it for you !" 
 
 " That wouldn't do, for I would be Mkely to mis- 
 take you for some of the monkeys and slay you 
 instead of the game !" 
 
 " You could avoid that by aiming at us; then we 
 would be safe !" 
 
 " If this gun continues to play me such tricks I'U 
 cast it aside and throw stones at whatever I see !" 
 
 "There it is again!" exclaimed Eustace with a 
 sniff. "You are laying it to the gun instead of 
 owning up like a man !" 
 
 " If you think it is not the fault of the weapon, 
 suppose you trade weapons and try mine ?" 
 
 " I am afraid I shall have to do it if matters go 
 on this way much longer," said Eustace. 
 
 "There's one thing certain: if this gun don't 
 reform I shall withdraw from the syndicate and 
 leave the whole business to you !" 
 
 A half hour later they struck the very spot for 
 
260 A J A UNT THRO U&H JA VA. 
 
 which they were looking. It was in the depth of 
 the forest, where a small stream of clear running 
 water flowed, and where the vegetation was so dense 
 that no sudden swirl of the elements could disturb 
 them. Jurak had been thoughtful enough to bring 
 a substantial lunch with them, on which they not 
 only made an excellent supper but had enough left 
 for the morning meal 
 
 It was agreed that Hermon should keep watch the 
 early part of the night, while Jurak would take his 
 place about " low twelve " and keep guard till day- 
 break. The three stretched themselves out before 
 the cheerful blaze, and talked a long time over the 
 wonderful experiences that had befallen Hermon in 
 the subterranean chamber, where, for a time, he be- 
 lieved he was doomed to perish like the unfortunate 
 lad who was overtaken by a similar misfortune 
 many years before. 
 
 The youth related the particulars of his descent 
 into the frightful place, and spoke of the lonely, 
 dismal hours which were hardly cheered by the fire 
 he was enabled to kindle. 
 
 " Tweak," he said, drawing the mongrel toward 
 jim and patting his frowzy head, " I have apologized 
 ilready for the bad things I said about you. I don't 
 juppose there is any use of pretending that you are 
 the bravest dog that ever lived, but you have earned 
 !iiy gratitude and proven that you are like us — no 
 matter how contemptible we may seem, there is 
 
A JA UNT THBO UOH JA VA. gGl 
 
 some good in us which is only awaiting the oppor- 
 tunity to show itself." 
 
 And he patted the dog's head affectionately, while 
 the canine, as if conscious of the exploit he had per- 
 formed, wagged his tail and walked about with the 
 air of one who understands the obligations under 
 which he has placed others. 
 
 Finally, as all felt weary from their long tramp 
 through the woods, Eustace and the native wrapped 
 themselves in their blankets and were soon asleep, 
 leaving the camp in charge of the sturdy young 
 American, who felt himself equal to the duty, 
 which he had performed more than once before 
 while on their memorable jaunt through Java. 
 
 " There are plenty of wild animals in this part of 
 the world," he reflected, when he realized that he 
 was alone, "and if I ain't mistaken there are some 
 of them prowling around the camp this very 
 minute." 
 
 The cause of this conclusion was not that he saw 
 or heard anything, but the actions of Tweak. The 
 p' -p may have wished to assume a brave demeanor, 
 so as to maintain the reputation he had gained from 
 his recent achievement ; but really the poor creature 
 was not equal to the demand. 
 
 He gave utterance to several threatening growls, 
 bristled up, and stared out in the darkness in a way 
 which proved that his keen intelligence had scented 
 some danger there. Then, at an encouraging word 
 
263 M. JAUST THBO UGH JA VA. 
 
 from Hermon, he darted out in the gloom as if fully 
 resolved to chew up the threatening brute, even if it 
 was a tiger ; but he had taken only a haK dozen 
 steps when he came back as if fired from a catapult. 
 
 " Don't be soared," said the sentinel. " We are 
 here with you, and no matter what it is, you can 
 count on us to help you out of any scrape that you 
 may get into." 
 
 Once more Tweak plucked up courage and stepped 
 guardedly into the encircling gloom, but got no 
 further than before when he skurried back and 
 sought refuge behind Hermon, who laughed in spite 
 of himself. 
 
 This time there was the best reason for the 
 frantic retreat of the animal, for he was pursued by 
 something which made a desperate attempt to seize 
 him, and came very near succeeding. 
 
 Eemembering the unreliability of the gun he had 
 been using through the day, the lad had stealthily 
 extracted his cousin's weapon from his embrace and 
 substituted his own without awaking the sleeper. 
 It was the fact that the young American held a rifle 
 on which he could rely that gave him so much 
 confidence. 
 
 The enemy which pursued Tweak so fiercely was 
 a lutung, a species of ape that sometimes shows 
 audacious bravery, as he did on the present occasion, 
 though it must be admitted that he also displayed a 
 Jack of judgment ; for instead of halting when the 
 
A J A UNT THRO UOE JA VA. 263 
 
 danine took refuge behind his master, whining with 
 terror, the lutung continued to advance, not only 
 with the manifest resolve of kiUing the little brute, 
 but of attacking Hermon as well. 
 
 " If you had enough sense to stay away," said the 
 lad to himself, "I wouldn't disturb you; but you 
 began the row and I will end it." 
 
 Thereupon he sent a bullet through the skull of 
 the ape, which leaped convulsively in the air and 
 fell dead so close to the sleeping couple that his fore- 
 arms dropped across the feet of Eustace. 
 
 "My gracious! what's the matter?" demanded 
 the latter, leaping up at the same moment that 
 Jurak sprang to his feet and grasped his gun. 
 
 " There's another one of them !" shouted Hermon 
 to his cousin ; " fire quick or he will get away !" 
 
 Jurak was on the point of discharging his weapon 
 when Eustace demanded that it be left to him to 
 dispose of. 
 
 Hermon smiled to himself, for his cousin had not 
 noticed, in his excitement, that it was not his own 
 weapon which he held. 
 
 The second lutung, probably a mate of the other, 
 stole forward in a way calculated to awe the bravest 
 hunter, for there was something so suggestive in the 
 slow, sure and noiseless approach that the sportsman 
 could not help feeling like the man who stands in 
 front of a goriUa. If he misses, he is sure to b© 
 torn to pieces before he can fire a second shot. 
 
264 A JATTNT TKROirOir JATA. 
 
 Awaking from a sound sleep, the lad was naturally 
 flurried; but the distance was so slight that he 
 could not have missed with a weapon which was 
 good for anything at all. 
 
 Eustace took but a moment to aim, when he 
 puUed trigger. The lutung started slightly, as if 
 from the flash of the rifle in his face, but he con- 
 tinued to approach as before. 
 
 "I've missed! I've missed !" shouted the youth, 
 leaping back in affright. " Quick, Jurak !" 
 
 The latter let fly, and the lutung was extinguished 
 with the same suddenness as his predecessor. 
 
 It was Hermon's turn now, and you may be sure 
 he did not spare his cousin. 
 
 " Why didn't you wait, Eustace, tiU Jurak and I 
 caught the creature and held it still? Then you 
 could have shoved the muzzle in his ear, and I don't 
 think you would have missed !" 
 
 "I don't understand how it was," replied the 
 other, looking around with a confused air, as though 
 the whole thing was beyond his comprehension. 
 " I'm sure I aimed well enough." 
 
 " Some folks will lay their failure to their guns, 
 instead of owning up that they don't know anything 
 about shooting !" 
 
 Just then the native pointed at the rifle in the 
 hands of Eustace, who looked down and discovered 
 the trick played on him. 
 
 " Ah," he laughed, " you have it on me this time 1 
 I own up 1" 
 
A JA U.WT Twnn rr w ja va. 265 
 
 After this demonstration ot the worthlessness of 
 the borrowed weapon, Herraon expressed his desire 
 to bring the hunt to an end. Since it was out of his 
 power to bear a creditable part in the sport he had 
 no heart left Beside, they had been away from 
 home so long that all felt a natural desire to reach 
 there without unnecessary delay. It was agreed, 
 therefore, that the return should be made as quickly 
 as possible. 
 
 Accordingly the next morning they made their 
 way out of the forest to the highway and pushed on 
 till they reached the house of Jurak, where Myeta 
 warmly welcomed them. She had saved the beauti- 
 fu} tiger-skin for Hermon, and the lad was delighted. 
 Taking his cousin aside he inquired how much funds 
 he had left, and when told borrowed every cent of 
 it, and adding about all his own he presented it to 
 Jurak and his wife, who were made as happy as a 
 couple of children. 
 
 A few days later, and without any incident worth 
 mentioning, the boys reached the home of Eustace, 
 and their ever-memorable jaunt through Java was 
 ended. Some weeks later they sailed for England 
 iu company with the mother of Hermon, and the 
 two entered one of the most famous institutions of 
 learning in the kingdom. And there we say good- 
 by and part company with them. 
 
 THE END. 
 
A, L. Burt's Catalogue of Books for 
 Young People by Popular Writers, 52- 
 58 Duane Street. New York Ng ^ '^ 
 
 BOOKS FOR BOYS. 
 
 Joe's Luck: A Boy's Adventures in California. By 
 
 BoKATio Aloek, Jr. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 The story Is cbocfe (nil ot stlrrlne incidents, while the amusinc situ- 
 ations are furnished by Joshaa Blclcford, from Pumpkin Hollow, and the 
 feUow who modestly styles himself the "Rip-tail Roarer, from Filie Oo„ 
 MissQuri." Mr. Aleer never writes a poor book, and "Joe's Luclc" Is cer- 
 tainly one ot his best. 
 
 Tom the Bootblack; or. The Road to Success. By 
 
 Horatio Aloer, Jr. 12ino, clotli, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 .A bilKht, enterprising lad was Tom the Bootblack. He was not at all 
 ashamed of his humble calling, thoufrh always on the looicout to better 
 himself. The lad started for Cincinnati to loolc up his heritage. Mr. 
 Grey, the uncle, did not hesitate to employ a ruffian to Iciil the lad. The 
 plan failed, and Gilbert Grey, once Tom the bootblaclc. came into a com- 
 fortable fortune. This is one of Mr. Alger's best stories. 
 
 Dan the Newsboy. By Hoeatio Algek, Je. 12mo, 
 
 cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 Dan Mordaunt and his mother lire in a poor tenement, and the lad i« 
 plucl£lly trying to make ends meet by selling papers in the streets of New 
 York. A little heiress of six years is confided to the care of the Mor- 
 daunts. The child is kidnapped and Dan tracks the child to the house 
 where she is hidden, and rescues her. The wealthy aunt of the little 
 heiress is so delighted with Dan's courage and many good qualities 
 that she adopts him as her heir. 
 
 Tony the Hero: A Brave Boy's Adventure with a 
 
 Tramp. By Horatio Aloer, Jr. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 Tony, a sturdy bright-eyed boy of fourteen, is under the control ot 
 %idolph Bugg, a thorough rascal. After much abuse Tony runs away 
 and gets a Job as stable boy in a country hotel. Tony Is heir to a 
 large estate. Rudolph for a consideration hunts up Tony and throws 
 him down a deep well. Of course Tony escapes from the fate proyided 
 (or him, and by a brave act, a rich friend secures his rights and Tony 
 is prosperous. A very entertaining book. 
 
 The Errand Boy; or. How Phil Brent Won Success. 
 
 By Horatio Aloer, Jr. liimo, cloth illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 The career of "The Errand Boy" embraces the city adrentnres o( 4 
 •mart country lad. Philip was brought up by a Itind-hearted Innkeeper 
 named Brent. The death of Mrs. Brent paved the way for the hero's 
 subsequent tronbles. A retired merchant in New York secures him the 
 situation of errand boy, and thereafter stands as his friend. 
 
 Tom Temple's Career. By Hohatio Algee, Je. ISmo, 
 
 doth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 Torn Temple Is a bright, self-reliant lad. He leave* Plympton village 
 to seek work in New York, whence he undertakes an Important mission 
 to Califoinla. Some of his adventures in the far west are so startling that 
 the reader will scarcely dos* the book until the last page shall have been 
 reached. Ihe tale Is written In Mr. Alger's most fascinstlng style. 
 
 For sale by all ^oksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt e( priee by tiM 
 piAIlsher, A, L. BUBX, UHi Ouane Strset, Hew T«», 
 
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 BOOKS FOR BOYS. 
 
 Frank Fowler, the Cash Boy. By Horatio Algbb, Jb. 
 
 ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 Frank Fowler, a poor boy, bravely determines to make a living foP 
 himself and his foster-sister Grace. Goine to New York he obtains a 
 situation as casli boy in a dry goods store. He renders a service to a 
 wealthy old gentleman who takes a fancy to the lad, and thereafter 
 helps the lad to gain success and fortune. 
 
 Tom Thatcher's Fortune. By Hokatio Alger, Je. 
 
 ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 Tom Thatcher is a brave, ambitious, nnselSsb boy. He supports his 
 mother and sister on meagre wages earned as a shoe-pegger in John 
 Simpson's factory. Tom is discharged from the factory and starts over- 
 land for California. He meets with many adventures. The story is told 
 in a way which has made Mr. Alger's name a household word Ic so many 
 homes. 
 
 The Train Boy. By Horatio Alger, Jr. ISmo, 
 
 cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 Paul Palmer was a wide-awake boy of sixteen who supported his mothev 
 and sister by selling books and papers on the Chicago and Milwaukee 
 Railroad. He detects a young man in the act of picking the pocket of a 
 young lady. In a railway accident many passengers are killed, but Paul 
 Is fortunate enough to assist a Chicago merchant, who out of gratitude 
 takes him into his employ. Paul succeeds with tact and Judgment and 
 is well started on the road to business prominence. 
 
 Mark Mason's Victory. The Trials and Triuniphs of 
 
 a Telegraph Boy. By Horatio Alqbb, Jb. 13mo, cloth, illustrated, price 
 
 $1.00. 
 
 Mark Mason, the telegraph boy, was a sturdy, honest lad, who plucklly 
 won his way to success by his honest manly eflEorts under many diffi- 
 culties. This story will please the very large class of boys who regard 
 Mr. Alger as a favorite author. 
 
 A Debt of Honor. The Story of Gerald Lane's Success 
 
 in the Far West. By Hokatio Algeb, Jr. ISmo, oloth, illustrated, price 
 
 $1.00. 
 
 The story of Gerald Lane and the account of the many trials and dis- 
 appointments which he passed through befoi he attained success, wiU 
 Interest all boys who have read the previous stories of this delightful 
 author. 
 
 Ben Bruce. Scenes in the Life of a Bowery Newsboy. 
 
 By Horatio Alser, Jr. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 Ben Bruce was a brave, manly, generous boy. The story of his efTorts. 
 and many seeming failures and disappointments, and his final success, are 
 most interesting tc all readers. The tale is written in Mr. Alger'a 
 most fascinating style. 
 
 The Castaways; or, On the Florida Eeefs. By Jambs 
 
 Otis. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 This tale smacks of the salt sea. From the moment that the Sea 
 Queen leaves lower New York bay till the breeze leaves her becalmed off 
 tile coast of Florida, one can almost hear the whistle of the wind 
 through her rigging, the creak of her straining cordage as she heels to 
 the leeward. The adventures of Ben Clark, the hero of the story and 
 Jake the cook, cannot fail to charm the reader. As a writer for young 
 people Mr. Otis is a prime favorite. 
 
 For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the 
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 BOOKS FOR BOYS. 
 
 Wrecked on Spider Island; or. How Ned Rogers Pwrnd 
 
 the Treasuraw By Jamss Otis, lamo, cloth, illustrated, price Jl.oa 
 Ned Sogers, a "down-east" plucky lad ships as cabin tioy to earn 
 a llTelihood. Ned Is marooned on Spider Island, and while there dis- 
 covers a wreck submerged in the sand, and finds a considerable amount 
 ot treasure. The capture of the treasure and the incidental of tlw 
 voyage serve to malie as entertaining a story of sea-life as the most 
 captious boy could desire. 
 
 The Search for the Silver City: A Tale of Adventure in 
 
 Yucatan. By James Otis. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 Two lads, Teddy Wright and Neal Emery, embartc on the steam 
 racht Day Dream for a cruise to the tropics. The yacht is destroyed 
 by fire, and then the boat is cast upon the coast of Yucatan. They 
 bear of the wonderful Silver City, of the Chan Santa Cruz Indians, 
 and with the help of a faithful Indian ally carry off a number of the 
 golden images from the temples. Pursued with relentless vigor at last 
 their escape is effected in an astonishing manner. The story is so 
 full of exciting incidents that the reader is quite carried away with 
 the novelty and realism of the narrative. 
 
 A Runaway Brig; or. An Accidental Cruise. By 
 
 Jaheb Otis. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 This Is a sea tale, and the reader can look out upon the wide shimmer- 
 ing sea as it flashes back the sunlight, and imagine himself afloat with 
 Harry Vandyne, Walter Morse, Jim Libby and that old shell-back. Bob 
 Brace, on the brig Bonita. The boys discover a mysterious document 
 which enables t&em to find a burled treasure. They are stranded on 
 an island and at last are rescued with the treasure. The boys are sure 
 to be fascinated with this entertaining story. 
 
 The Treasure Finders: A Boy's Adventures in 
 
 Nicaragua. By Jaues Otis. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 Boy and Dean Coloney, with their guide Tongla. leave their father'0 
 Indigo plantation to visit the wonderful ruins of an ancient city. The 
 boys eagerly explore the temples of an extinct race and discover three 
 golden images cunningly hidden away. They escape with the greatest 
 lUfflculty. Eventually they reach safety with their golden prlees. We 
 doubt if there ever was written a more entertaining story than "Thf 
 Treasure Finders." 
 
 Jack, the Hunchback. A Story of the Coast of Maine. 
 
 8y Jahes Otis. Price $1.00. 
 
 rhls Is the story of a little hunchback who lived on Cape Elizabeth, 
 on the coast of Maine. His trials and successes are most Interesting, 
 From first to last nothing stays the Interest of the narrative. It bears utf 
 along as on a stream whose current varies in direction, but never loaee 
 Its force. 
 
 With Washington at Monmouth : A Story of Three 
 
 Philadelphia Boys. By Jaues Ons. ISmo, araamental doth, olivine 
 
 edges, illustrated, price $1.50. 
 
 Three Philadelphia lads assist the American spies and make regular 
 and frequent visits to Valley Forge In the Winter while the Brlti^Si 
 occupied the city. The story abounds with pictures of Colonial li{e 
 skillfully drawn, and the eUmpsee of Washington's soldiers which ace 
 given shown that the work has not been hastily done, or without ean- 
 siderable study. The story Is wholesome and patriotic la tone, u ate 
 all of Mr. Otis' works. 
 
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 BOOKS FOR BOYS. 
 
 With Lafayette at Torktown: A Story of How Two 
 
 Boys JcniMd the Continental Army. By Jamss Otis. 12mo, ornamental 
 
 cloth, (diTina edges, llluBtrated^ price $1.50. 
 
 Two lads from Portmvuth, N. H., attempt to enlist In the Colonial 
 Armr* and are riven employment as spies. There is no lack of exciting 
 inddeatB which the youthful reader craves, but it is healthful excite- 
 ment brimming with facts which every boy sbould be familiar with, 
 and while the reader is following the adventures of Ben Jaffrays and 
 Ned Allen he is acquiring a fund of historical lore which will remain 
 in his memory long after that which he has memorized from text- 
 books has been forgotten. 
 
 !At IJhe Siege of Havana. Being the Experiences of 
 
 Three Boys Serving under Israel Putnam in 1762. By James Otis, IStao, 
 
 ornamental cloth, olivine edges, illustrated, price Sl-50. 
 
 "At the Siege of Havana" deals with that portion of the Island's 
 history when the English king captured the capital, thanks to the 
 assistance given by the troops from New England, led in part by Col. 
 Israel Putnam. 
 
 The principal characters are Darius Lunt, the lad who, represented as 
 telling the story, and bis comrades, Robert Clement and Nicholas 
 Vallet. Colonel Putnam also figurGs to considerable extent, necessarily. 
 In the tale, and the whole forms one of the most readable stories founded on 
 historical facts. 
 
 The Defense of Fort Henry. A Story of Wheeling 
 
 Creek in 1777. By Jambs Otis. 12mo, ornamental cloth, olivine edges, 
 
 illustrated, price $1.50. 
 
 Nowhere in the history of our country can be found more heroic or 
 thrilling incidents than in the story of those brave men and women 
 who founded the settlement of Wheeling in the Colony of Virginia. The 
 recital of what Elizabeth Zane did is in Itself as heroic a story as can 
 be imagined. The wondrous bravery displayed by Major McCuUocb 
 and his gallant comrades^ the sufferings of the colonists and their sacrifice 
 of blood and life, stir the blood of old as well as young readers. 
 
 The Capture of the Laughing Mary, A Story of Three 
 
 New York Boys in 1776. By Jajaes Otis. 12mo, ornamental cloth, olivine 
 
 ed^es, price $1.50. 
 
 * 'During the BrltlSb occupancy of New York, at the outbreak of the 
 Etevolutiout a Yankee lad hears of the plot to take General Washington's 
 person, and calls in two companions to assist the patriot cause. They 
 do some astonishing things, and. incidentally, lay the way for an 
 American nary later, by the exploit which gives its name to the 
 work. Mr. Otis' books are too well known to reauire any particular 
 commendaticHi to the yosng." — Evening Post. 
 
 With Warren at Bunker Hill. A Story of the Siege of 
 
 BoBt<»L By Jambs Otis. 13mo, omametnal cloth, olivine edg^ lllus- 
 
 tnbted, price $1.S0. 
 
 "This is a tale of the siege of Boston, which opens on the day after 
 tiie dolBsa at Lexington and Concord, with a description of home life 
 £n Boston, tntrodnees the reader to the British camp at Charlestown* 
 irtMFWB Oeo. Warren at home, describes what a boy thonght of the 
 ^ttte ef Bunker Hill, and closes with the raising of the si^e. The 
 tibrea becvaa, George Wentworth, Ben Scarlett and an old ropemaker. 
 
 Sear the euasll^ oi a young 1l^>ry, who causes them man/ aaventofM - 
 e beys wlU like to read."— ^E>«troit Free Press. 
 
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 BOOKS FOR BOYS. 
 
 With the Swamp Fox. The Story o£ Qeneral Mffirion's 
 
 SpiSB. By Saui^ Otia. ISmo, (dotb, illustrated, price Sl.OO. 
 
 This itoty deals with General FraociB Marlon's heroic struegle Is tbm 
 €arolli>as. Gsoeral Marion's arrival to tnke command of QKse brave 
 men and rongb riders is pictured as a boy mlffbt have seen it, and 
 although th« story is devoted to what the lads did, the Swamp E<»x 
 is ever present in the mind of the reader. 
 
 Oa the Kentucky Frontier. A Story of the Fighting 
 
 Pioneers of the West. By James Otis. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, priee f 1. 
 
 In the history of oar country there is no more thrilliog Bt»rj ttmi 
 that of the work done on the Mississippi river by a handful of fnmttorB- 
 mes. Mr. Otis takes the reader on that famous expeditien from tke 
 arrival of Major Clarke's force at Com Island, until Kiskaskla was 
 captared. He relates that part of Simon Kenton's life history wliick 
 is not usually touched upon either by the historian or the story teUer. 
 This is one of the most entertaining books for young people which has 
 been published. 
 
 Sarah Dillard's Eide, A Story of South Carolina in 
 
 in 1780. By James Otis. i2mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "This book deals with the Carolinas in 1780, giving a wealth of detail of 
 the Mountain Men who struggled so valiantly against the king's troops. 
 Malor Ferguson is the prominent British ofllcer of the story, which ia 
 told as though coming from a youth who experienced these adventures. 
 In this way tbe famous ride of Sarah Dillard is brought out as an 
 Incident of the plot." — Boston Journal. 
 
 A Tory Plot. A Story of the Attempt to Kill General 
 
 Washington. ByJAHEsOris. I2mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 " 'A Tory Plot' is the stoty of two lads who overhear something 
 of the plot originated during the Revolution by Gov. Tryou to capture 
 or murder Washington. They communicate their knowledge to Gen. 
 Putnam and are commissioned by liim to play the role of detectives 
 in the matter. They do so, and meet with many adventures and hair- 
 breadth escapes. The boys are, of course, mythical, but they serve to en- 
 able the author to put into very attractive shape much valuable knowledfe 
 concerning one phase of the Bevolution." — Fittsbiurgh Times. 
 
 A Traitor's Escape. A Story of the Attempt to Seize 
 
 Benedict Arnold, By Jaicbs Otis, l^o, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "This is a tale with stirring scenes depicted in each chapter, bringlag 
 clearly before ttie mind tbe glorious deeds V)f the early settlers in tUa 
 country. la an historical work dealing with this country's past, no 
 plot can hold the attention closer than this one, which describes the 
 attempt and partial success of Benedict Arnold's escape to New Xotfe, 
 where he remained as the guest of Sir Henry Clinton. AU those who 
 actually figured in tbe arrest of the traitor, as well as Gen. Washing- 
 ton, are included as cliaracters." — Albany UniOB. 
 
 A Cmise with Paul Jones. A Story of Naval Warfare 
 
 in 1776. By Jauxs Otis, l&uo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "This story takes up that portion of Paul Jones' advenlorsiia life 
 when he was havering ofi' the British coast, watching for an oppor- 
 tunity to strike the enemy a blow. It deals more particularly with 
 his descent upon Whitehaven, the seizure of Lady Sellclrk's plate, and 
 the famous battle with the Drake. The boy who figures In the tale 
 is one who was taken from a derelict by Paul Jones aliortlj aftet tUa 
 particular cruise was begun." — Oliioago Inter-Ooean. 
 
 For gale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of wSm %f fSn 
 pablMber, A. L, BDaZi H-eS Doane Btieet. ire» York. 
 
6 A. L, BURT^S BOOK S FOB YOUNG PEOPLE 
 
 BOOKS FOR BOYS. 
 
 Corporal lige^s Eecruit. A Story of Crown Pomt and 
 
 Tloonderoga. By James Otis. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, pi-ice $1,00- 
 "In 'Corporal Lige's Recruit,' Mr. Otis telle the amusing story of an 
 olQ soldier, proud of bis record, who had served the king in '5S, and who 
 takes the lad, Isaac Rice, as his 'personal recruit.' The lad acquita 
 himself superbly. Col. Ethan Allen 'in the name of God and the con- 
 tinental congress,' iutusts much martial spirit into the narrative, whlci 
 will arouse the keenest interest as it proceeds. Crown Point, Ticon* 
 deroga, Benedict Arnold and numerous other famous historical mames 
 appear in this dramatic tale." — Boston Globe. 
 
 Morgan, the Jersey Spy. A Story of the Siege of York- 
 town in 1781. By Jambs Otis. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 "The two lads who are utilized by the author to emphasize the detatie 
 of the work done during that memorable time were real boys who llve« 
 on the banks of the York river, and who aided the Jersey spy In his 
 dangerous occupation. In the guise of fishermen the lads visit York- 
 town, are suspected of being spies, and put under arrest. Morgan risks 
 his life to save them. The final escape, the thrilling encounter with a 
 squad of red coats, when they are exposed equally to the bullets of 
 friends and foes, told in a masterly fashion, makes of this volume one 
 of the most entertaining books of the year." — Inter-Ocean. 
 
 The Young Scout: The Story of a West Point Lieu- 
 tenant. By Edtvabd S. SIllis. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 The crafty Apache chief Geronlmo but a few years ago was the 
 most terrible scourge of the southwest border. The author has woven, 
 in a tale of thrilling interest, all the incidents of Geronlmo's last raid. 
 The hero is Lieutenant James Decker, a recent graduate of West Point. 
 Ambitious to distinguish himself the young man takes many a desperate 
 chance against the enemy and on more than one occasion narrowly 
 escapes with bis life. In our opinion Mr. EUis is the best writer of 
 Indian stories now before the public. 
 
 Adrift in the Wilds: The Adventures of Two Ship- 
 wrecked Boys. By Edward S. Ellis. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 Blwood Brandon and Hqward Lawrence are en route for San Fran- 
 cisco. Off the coast of California the steamer takes fire. The two boya 
 reach the shore with several of the passengers. Young Brandon be- 
 comes separated from bis party and is captured by hostile Indians, 
 but is afterwards rescued. This Is a very entertaining narrative of 
 Southern California. 
 
 A Young Hero; or, Fighting to Win. By Edwaed S. 
 
 Ellis. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 This story tells how a valuable solid silver service was stolen from 
 the Misses Perkinpine, two very old and simple minded ladies. Fred 
 Sheldon, the hero of this story, undertakes to discover the thieves and 
 bave them arrested. After much time spent in detective work, he 
 succeeds in discovering the silver plate and winning the reward. The 
 stoiT is told in Mr. Ellis' most fascinating style. Every boy will be 
 clad to read this delightful book. 
 
 Lost in the E^ckies. A Story of Adventure in the 
 
 Bocky Mountains. By Edward S. Ellis. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1. 
 
 Incident succeeds Incident, and adventore is piled upon adventure* 
 and at the end the reader, be be boy or man, will have experienced 
 breathless enjoyment in this romantic story describing many adventures in 
 the Bockles and among the Indians. ^ ^ 
 
 For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of pHoe hy the 
 ^abUsber, A. L. BUB.T, 52-58 Duane Street, XTev YoiK. 
 
A. L, BUET'S books FOE YOUNG PEOPLE. 7 
 
 BOOKS FOR BOYS. 
 
 A Jaunt Through Java: The Story of a Journey to 
 
 the Sacred Mouotain. By Edwakd S. Ellis. ISmo, doth, illustrated, 
 
 price (1.00. 
 
 The IntereBt of this story Is toand In the thrilUne adventures of 
 two cousins, Hermon and Bustace Hadley, on their trip aerosss the island 
 of Java, fi'om Samarang to the Sacred Mountain. In a land where the 
 Royal Bengal tiger, the rhinoceros, and other fierce beasts are to be 
 met with, it is but natural that the heroes of this book should have a 
 lively experience. There is not a dull page in the book. 
 
 The Boy Patriot. A Story of Jack, the Young Friend 
 
 of Washington. By Edward S. Elus. 12mo, cloth, olivine edges, illos* 
 
 trated, price $1.50. 
 
 "There are adventures of all kinds for the hero and Ms friends, whose 
 plack and Ingenuity in extricating themselves from awkward fixes irre 
 always eaual to the occasion. It is an excellent story full of honest, 
 manly, patriotic efforts on the part of the hero. A very vivid description 
 of the battle of Trenton is also found in this story." — Journal of 
 Ednoation. 
 
 A Yankee Lad's Pluck. How Bert Larkin Saved his 
 
 Father's Ranch in Porto Kico. By Wm. P. Chipman. ISmo, cloth, lllus- 
 
 troted, price $1.00. 
 
 'Bert Larkin, the hero of the story, early excites our admiration, 
 and is altogether a fine character such as boys will delight in, whilst 
 the story of his numerous adventures is very graphically told. This 
 will, we think, prove one of the most popular boys' books this season."— 
 Gasette. 
 
 A Brave Defense. A Story of the Massacre at Fort 
 
 Oriswold in 1781. By William P. Chipman. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price 
 
 Sl.OO. 
 
 Perhaps no more gallant fight against fearful odds took place during 
 the Revolutionary War than that at Fort Griswold, Groton Heights, Conn., 
 In 1781. The boys are real boys who were actually on the muster rolls, 
 either at Fort Trumbull on the New London side, or of Fort Griswold on 
 the Groton side of the Thames. The youthful reader who follows Halsey 
 Sanford and Levi Dart and Tom Malleson, and their equally brave com- 
 rades, through their thrilling adventures will be learning something more 
 than historical facts; they will be imbibing lessons of fidelity, of bravery, 
 of heroism, and of manliness, which must prove serviceable in the arena 
 of life. 
 
 The Young Minuteman. A Story of the Capture of 
 
 General Prescott in 1777. ByWnjjAM P. Chipman. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, 
 
 price $1.00. 
 
 This story is based upon actual events which occurred during the British 
 occupation of the waters of Narraeansett Bay. Darius Wale and William 
 Northrop belong toi "the coast patrol." The story is a strong one, dealing 
 •nly with actual events. There is, however, no lack of thrilling adventure, 
 and every lad who is fortunate enough to obtain the book will find not 
 only that his historical knowledge is Increased, but that his own patriotism 
 and love of country are deepened. 
 
 For the Temple; A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem. 
 
 By Q. A. Hentt. With illustrations by S. J. Solomon. 12mo, cloth, olivine 
 edgee, price tl.OO. 
 
 "Mr. Henty's graphic prose picture of the hopeless Jewish resistance 
 to Roman away adds another leaf to his record of the famous wars of 
 the world. The book is one of Mr. Henty's cleverest efforts." — Oraphio. 
 
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 For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price b» Vii9 
 paUiabeE, A, L. BVSX, 5iS4S Ouane Street, Hew Xvrk. 
 
8 A. t. BUET^S BOOKS FOE YOUNG PEOPLE. 
 
 BOOKS FOR BOYS. 
 
 Boy Gilbert's Search: A Tale of the Great Lakes. By 
 
 Wu. P. CHmuN. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 A deep mysteiy banfis over the parentage of Boy Gilbert. He arrangea 
 witb two BcboolznateB to make a tear of the Oreat Lakea on a iteam 
 laanch. The tbree boys Tlslt many points of Interest on tbe lakes. 
 Afterwards the lads rescne an elderly gentleman and a lady from a sink- 
 ing yacht. Later on the boys narrowly escai>e with their Urei. The 
 hero is a manly, self-reliant boy, whose adventures will be followed 
 with interest. 
 
 the Slate Picker: The Story of a Boy's Life in the 
 
 Coal Mines. By Harry Prentice:. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 This is a story of a boy's life In the coal mines of Pennsylvania. 
 Ben Burton, the hero, had a hard road to travel, but by grit and energy 
 be advanced step by step until he found himself called upon to fill the 
 position of chief engineer of the Kohinoor Goal Company. This is a 
 book of extreme Interest to every boy reader. 
 
 The Boy Cruisers; or, Paddling in Florida. By St. 
 
 Gborob Rathbornb. 12ino, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00 
 Andrew George and Rowland Carter start on a canoe trip along the 
 Gulf coast, from Key West to Tampa, Florida. Their first adventure 
 Is with a pair of rascals who steal their boats. Next they run Into 
 a gale In the Gulf. After that they have a lively time with alli- 
 gators and Andrew gets into trouble with a band of Seminole Indians. 
 Mr. Rathborne knows just how to interest the boys, and lads who are 
 in search of a rare treat will do well to read this entertaining story. 
 
 Captured by Zulus: A Story of Trapping in Africa. 
 
 By Harry Preintice. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 This story details the adventures of two lads, Dick Elsworth and Bob 
 Harvey, in the wilds of South Africa. By stratagem the Zulus capture 
 Dirk and Bob and take them to their principal krael or village. Thu 
 lads escape death by dig ing their way out of the prison hut by night. 
 They are pursued, but the Zulus finally give up pursuit. Mr. Prentice 
 tells exactly how wild-beast collectors secure specimens on their native 
 stamping grounds, and these descriptions make very entertaining reading. 
 
 Tom the Heady; or. Up from the Lowest, By Ran- 
 dolph Hill. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1,00. 
 
 This is a dramatic narrative of the unaided rise of a fearless, ambi- 
 tious boy from the lowest round of fortune's ladder to wealth and the 
 governorship of his native State. Tom Seacomb begins life with a pur- 
 pose, and eventually overcomes those who oppose him. How he manages 
 to win the battle is told by Mr. Bill in a masterfrl way that thrills 
 the reader and holds his attention and sympathy to the end. 
 
 Captain Kidd's Gold: The True Story of an Adven- 
 turous Sailor Boy. By Jaues Feankun Fitts. 12mo, cloth, iUustratedf 
 price $1.00. 
 
 There is something fascinating to the average youth In the very idea 
 of burled treasure. A vision arises before his eyes of swarthy Portu- 
 guese and Spanish rascals, with black beards and gleaming eyes. There 
 were many famous sea rovers, but none more celebrated than Capt. Kidd. 
 Paul Jones Garry Inherits a document which locates a considerable 
 treasure buried by two of Kidd's crew. The hero of this book is an 
 ambitious, persevering lad, of salt-wator New England ancestry, and his 
 e£torts to reach the island and secure the money form one of the most 
 absprbing tales for onr youth that has come from tbe press. 
 
 For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the 
 publisher, A. L. BUBTi &8«S8 DoaiM Streat, Hew York. 
 
A. L. BURT^S BOOKS FOR YOUNG PBOPLR 9 
 
 BOOKS FOR BOYS. 
 
 The Boy Explorers: The Adventures of Two Bojb in 
 
 Alaska. By Harrt Prentice. l2mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 Two boys, Raymond and Spencer Manning, travel to Alaska to join 
 their father In search of their nncle. On their arrival at Sitka the boys 
 with an Indian guide set off across the monntalns. The trip is fraught 
 with perils that test the lads' couran^' to the utmost. AH through their 
 exciting adventures the lads demonstrate what can be accomplished b; 
 pluck and resolution, and their experience makes one of the most in- 
 terestlng tales ever written. 
 
 The Island Treasure; or, Harry DarreFs Fortune. 
 
 By Frank H. Converse. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 Harry Darrel, having received a nautical training on a school-ship, is 
 bent on going to sea. A runaway horse changes his prospects. Harry 
 saves Dr. Gregg from drowning and afterward becomes sailing-master 
 of a sloop yacht. Mr. Converse's stories possess a charm of their own 
 which is appreciated by lads who delight In good healthy tales that 
 smack of salt water. 
 
 Guy Harris: The Runaway. By Harry Casxlemon. 
 
 ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 Guy Harris lived in a small city on the shore of one of the Great 
 Lakes. He is persuaded to go to sea, and gets a glimpse of the rough 
 Bide of life in a sailor's boarding house. He ships on a vessel and for 
 five months leads a hard life. The book will interest boys generally 
 on account of Its graphic style. This la one of Gastlemon's most attract- 
 ive stories. 
 
 Julian Mortimer? A Brave Bo/s Struggle for Home 
 
 and Fortune. By Harry Castlemon. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1. 
 
 The scene of the story lies west of the Mississippi River, in the days 
 when emigrants made their perilous way across the great plains to the 
 land of gold. There is an attack upon the wagon train by a large party 
 of Indians. Our hero Is a 'ad of uncommon nerve and pluck. Befriended 
 by a stalwart trapper, a real rough diamond, our hero achieves the most 
 happy results. 
 
 By Pike and Dyke : A Tale of the Eise of the Dutch 
 
 Republic. By G. A. Hemty. With illustrations by Maynard Brown. 
 
 12mo, cloth, olivine edges, price $1.00. 
 
 "BoyB with a turn lor historical research will be enchanted with the 
 book, while the rest who only care for adrenture will be students in spite 
 of themselvei." — St. James's Gazette. 
 
 St. George for England: A Tale of Cressy and Poi- 
 tiers. By G. A. Hbntt. With illustrations by Gordon Beowni;. 12mo, 
 clotli, olivine edg^es, price $1.00. 
 
 "A story of very great interest lor boys. In his own forcible style 
 the author has endeavored to show that determination and enthusiasm 
 can accomplish marvellous results; and that courage is generally accom- 
 panied by magnanimity and gentleness." — Pall Mall Gazette. 
 
 Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of 
 
 California. By G. A. Hentt. With illustrations by H. M. Paget. 12mo. 
 
 doth, olivine edges, price 81.00. 
 
 "Mr. Henty is careful to mingle instruction with entertainment; and 
 the humorous touches, especially In the sketch of J(An Holl, the West- 
 minster dustman, Dickens himself could hardly have excelled. —Chris- 
 tian Leader. 
 
 For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the 
 pnUisber, A. L. BOBZ, 68-66 Soane Street, New York. 
 
10 A. L. BUEt's books FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. 
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 Budd Boyd's Triumph; or. The Boy Finn of Fox Idand. 
 
 By William P. Chipman. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price Jl.OO. 
 
 The scene of this story is laid on the apper part of Narragansett Bay, 
 and the leading incidents have a strong salt-water flavor. The two 
 boys, Budd Boyd and Judd Floyd, being ambitious and clear sighted, 
 form a partnership to catch and sell fish. Budd's pluck and good sense 
 carry him through many troubles. In following the career of the boy 
 firm of Boyd & Floyd, the youthful reader will find a useful lesson — 
 that Industry and perseverance are bound to lead to ultimate success. 
 
 lost in the Canyon : Sam Willett's Adventures on the 
 
 Great Colorado. By Alfred E. Calhoun. 13mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1, 
 This story hinges on a fortune left to Sam W'llett, the hero, and the 
 fact that it will pass to a disreputable relate i if the lad dies before 
 he shall have reached his majority. The story of his father's peril and 
 of Sam's desperate trip down the great canyon on a raft, and how the 
 party finally escape from their perils is des'^^ibed In a graphic style 
 that stamps Mr. Calhoun as a master of his an. 
 
 Captured by Apes : The Wonderful Adventures of a 
 
 Young Animal Trainer. By Eabb? Fbenticb. l^mo, cloth, illustrated- 
 
 price $1.00. 
 
 Philip Garland, a young animal collector and trainer, sets sail for 
 Eastern seas in guest of a new stock of living curiosities. The vessel 
 is wrecked off the coast of Borneo, and young Garland is cast ashore 
 on a small island, and cantured by the apes that overrun the place. 
 Very novel Indeed is the way by which the young man escapes death. 
 Mr. Prentice is a writer of undoubted skill. 
 
 Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main. 
 
 By G. A. Henty. With illustrations by Gordon Browsb. 18mo, cloth, 
 
 oUvine edges, price $1.00. 
 
 **There is not a dull chapter, nor, indeed, a dull page in the book; but 
 the author has so carefully worked up his sub-Ject that the exciting 
 deeds of his heroes are never incongruous nor absurd." — Observer, 
 
 By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War. B^ 
 
 G. A. Henti. With illustrations by Gordon Browne. 12mo, cloth, olivine 
 
 edges, price $1.00. 
 
 The author has woven, in a tale of thrilling Interest, all the details 
 of the Ashanti campaign, of which he was himself a witness. 
 
 "Mr. Henty keeps up his reputation as a writer of bo-B' stories. 'By 
 Sheer Pluck' will be eagerly read." — Athenffium. 
 
 With Lee in Virginia : A Story of the American Civil 
 
 War. By Q. A. Hentt. With illustrations by Gordon Browne. ISmo, 
 
 cloth, olivine edges, price $1.00. 
 
 "One of the best stories for lads which Mr. Henty has yet written. 
 The picture is full of life and color, *and the stirring and romantic inci- 
 dents are skillfully blended with the personal interest and charm of the 
 story." — Standard. 
 
 By England's Aid ; or, The Freeing of the Netherlands 
 
 (1585-1604). ByG. A. Hentt. With illustrations by Alfred Peaksb. 13mo, 
 
 cloth, oUvine edges, price $1.00. 
 
 "It is an admirable book for youngsters. It overflows with stirring 
 Incident and exeitine adventure, and the color of the era and of the 
 scene are finely reproduced. The illustrations add to its attractiveness."^ 
 Boston Oaaette. 
 
 For sale by aU booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by tbt 
 pobUsher, A, L. BUST, Sg-SS Suane Street, New York. 
 
A. L. btjet's books for young people. 11 
 BOOKS FOR BOYS. 
 
 By Big^ht of Conquest; or. With Cortez in Mexico. 
 
 kf Q. A. Hbntt. With Illustrations by W. S. Staoet. 12mo, cloth. 
 
 oUTme edges, price $1.60. 
 ■'The conquest of Mexico by a small band of resolute men under the 
 magnlfioent leadership of Cortez is always rightfully ranked among the most 
 lomantlo and daring exploits In hlstdry. 'By Right of Conquest' Is the 
 neaieet approach to a perfectly succesBful historical tale that Hr. Henty 
 haa yet published."— Academy. 
 
 For Name and Fame; or. Through Afghan Passes. 
 
 By G. A. Hbntt. With illustrations by Qobdok Bbownb. 12mo, cloffe 
 
 oUTJne edges, price $1 .00. 
 
 "Not only a rousing story, replete with all the varied forms of excite* 
 ment of a campaign, but, what is still more useful, an account of a 
 territory and Its inhabitants whiCh must for a long time possess a suprema 
 Interest for Englishmen, as being the key to our Indian £mpire."— 
 Glasgow Herald. 
 
 The Bravest of the Brave; or. With Peterhorough in 
 
 Spain. By Q. A. Hbntt. With illustrations by H. M. Paobt. 12ino 
 
 cloth, olivine edges, price $1.00. 
 
 "Mr. Henty never loses sight of the moral purpose of his work — ^to 
 enforce the doctrine of courage and truth, mercy and loving kl idneas, 
 as IndispoQsable to the making of a gentleman. Boys will rea>.. *The 
 Bravest of the Brave' with pleasure and proht; of that we are quite 
 sure." — Daily Telegraph. 
 
 The Cat of Bubastes : A iStory of Ancient Egypt. By 
 
 G. A. Hentt. With illustrations. 12mo, cloth, olivine edges, price $1.00. 
 
 "The story, from the critical moment of the killing of the sacred cat 
 to the perilous escodus Into Asia with which It closes. Is very sklUfally 
 constructed and full ot exciting adventures. It Is admirably Illustrated.'' 
 — Saturday Review. 
 
 Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Tale of Fontenoy and Cul- 
 
 loden. By G. A. Hbntt. With illustrations by Gordon Bro'^nf. liSmo, 
 
 doth, olivine e<lgeB, price $1.00. 
 
 "Ronald, the hero. Is very like the hero of 'Quentln Durward.' The 
 lad's journey across France, and his hairbreadth escaikes, ma;.e3 up aa 
 good a narrative of the kind as we have ever read. For freshness of 
 treatment and variety of Incident Mr, Henty has surpassed himself."— 
 Spectator. 
 
 With Clive in India; or, The Beginnings of an Empire. 
 
 By 6. A, Hentt. With illustrations by Gordon Browne. 12mo, cloth, 
 
 ouvine edges, price $1.00. 
 
 "He has taken a period of Indian history of the most vital Impor- 
 tance, and he has embroidered on ithe historical facts a story which of 
 Itself is deeply interesting. Young people assuredly will be delighted 
 with the volume." — Scotsman, 
 
 In the Beign of Terror: The Adventures of a West-j 
 
 minster Boy. By G. A. Henty. With illustrations by J. SohSnbero. 
 I ISmo, doth, olivine edges, price $1.00. 
 
 "Harry Sandwlth, the Westminster boy, may fairly be Bald to beat 
 Mr. Henty's record. His adventures will delight boys by the audacity 
 and peril they depict. The story Is one of Mr. Henty's best." — Saturday 
 Beview. ______^.^________^_— ___ 
 
 For sale by aU booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by th^ 
 frMUhec, A, !•. EV&I, 62-58 Suans Street, New York. 
 
12 A. L. BURT^S BOOKS FOB YOUNG PEOPLE. 
 
 BOOKS FOR BOYS. 
 
 The Lion of the North: A Tale of Oustavns Adolpbns 
 
 and the Wars of Religion. By G. A. Henty. With Ulustratioiis by Johb 
 
 SceCkbero. 12mo, cloth, olivine edges, price $1.00. 
 
 "A praiseworthy attempt to Interest British yonth In the ereat deeds 
 of the Scotch Brigade In the wars of Gnetavus AdolphU8. Mackey, Hep- 
 buru^ and Munro live again in Mr. Henty'B pages, as those deserve to 
 live vrhose disdpUiKd bands formed really Ihe germ of the modem 
 British army." — ^Athenienm. 
 
 The Dragon and the Raven; or, The Days of King 
 
 Alfred. By G. A. Hbntt. With illustrations by C. J. Stanilahd. ISmo, 
 
 cloth, Dlivine edges, price $1.00. 
 
 In this story the author gives an account of the fierce straggle be« 
 tween Saxon and Dane for supremacy in England, and presents a vivid 
 picture of the misery and ruin to which the country was reduced by the 
 ravages of the sea-wolves. The story is treated In a manner moBt at- 
 tractive to the boyish reader.*' — AthenEeum. 
 
 The Young Carthaginian: A Story of the Times of 
 
 EannibaL By G. A. Hentt. With illustrations by C. J. Stanilaiid. 12mO| 
 
 cloth, olivine edges, price $1.00. 
 
 "Well constructed and vividly told. From first to last nothing stays 
 the Interest of the narrative. It bears us along as on a stream whose 
 current varies In direction, but never loses Its force." — Saturday Seview. 
 
 In Freedom's Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce. 
 
 By O. A. Hentt. With illustrations by Qokdon Bbownb. ISnao, clothi 
 
 oUviue edges, price $1.00. 
 
 "It is written in the author's beat style. Pull of the wildest and most 
 remarkable achievements, it is a tale of great interest, which a boy. once 
 he has begun it, will not willingly put one side." — ^The Sohoolmaster. 
 
 With Wolfe in Canada; or. The Winning of a Con- 
 tinent. By G. A. Hehtv. With illustrations by Gobdoif Browne. 13mo, 
 cloth, olivine edges, price $1.00. 
 
 "A model of what a boys' story-book should be. Mr. Henty Das a 
 great nower of infusing into the dead facts of history new life, and aa 
 no pains are spared by him to ensure accuracy in historic details, hla 
 books supply useful aids to study as well aa amusement." — School Quard- 
 las. 
 
 True to the Old Flag: A Tale of the American War of 
 
 Independence. By G. A. Hentv. With illustrations by Gordon Bbownx, 
 
 12mo, cloth, olivine edges, price $1.00. 
 
 "Does justice to the pluck and determination of the British soliders 
 daring the unfortunate struggle against American emancipation. The Boa 
 of an American loyalist, who remains true to our flag, falls among the 
 hostile red-skins in that very Huron country which has been endeared 
 to us by the exploits of Hawkeye and Ghlngachgook." — The Times. 
 
 A Final Eeckoning: A Tale of Bush Life in Aus- 
 tralia. By G. A. Hentt. With illustrations by W. B. WotLEN. ISmo, 
 cloth, olivine edges, price $1.00. 
 "All boys wlU read this story with eager and unflagging interest. The 
 
 episodes are In Mr. Henty's very best vein — graphic, exciting, realistic; 
 
 and, as in all Mr. Henty's books, the tendency is to the formation of an 
 
 honorable, manly, and even heroic character." — Birmingham Post. 
 
 For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price br the 
 publisher, A. L. BVBX, 62.68 SBans Street, New Teik. 
 
A. L. BURT^S BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. 13 
 
 BOOKS FOR BOYS. 
 
 The Lion of St. Mark: A Tale of Venice in the Four- 
 teenth Century. By Q. A. Henty. With Illustrations by Gordon Bbowkb. 
 ISmo, cloth, olivine edges, price Sl.OO. 
 "BTeiT boy should read 'The Lion o( St, Mark." Mr. Henty has never 
 
 produced a story more delightful, more wholesome, or more vivacious."— ■> 
 
 Saturday Eeview. 
 
 Facing Death; or, The Hero of the Vaughan Pit. A 
 
 Tale of the Coal Jlines. By G. A. Henty. With illustrations by Gobdok 
 
 Bbowne. ISmo, cloth, olivine edges, price $1.00. 
 
 "The tale is well written and well Illustrated, and there Is much 
 reality in the characters. If any father, clergyman, or schoolmaster 
 Is on the lookout for a good book to give as a present to a boy who la 
 worth his salt, this Is the book we would recommend." — Standard. 
 
 Maori and Settler: A Story of the New Zealand War. 
 
 By G. A. Henty. With illustrations by Alfred Peaksb. 12mo, cloth> 
 olivine edges, price $1.00. 
 
 "In the adventures amon£ the Maoris, there are many breathlesb 
 moments in which the odds seem hopelessly against the party, but the; 
 succeed in establishing themselves happily in one of the pleasant New 
 Zealand valleys. It is brimful of adventure, of humorous and Interesting 
 conversation, and vivid pictures of colonial life." — Schoolmaster. 
 
 One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo. By G. A. 
 
 Henty. With illustrationa by W. E. Oybrend, 12mo, cloth, olivine 
 
 edges, price $1.00. 
 "Written with Homeric vigor and heroic inspiration. It Is graphic, 
 picturesque, and dramatically effective . . . shows us Mr. Henty at 
 his best and brightest. The adventures will hold a boy enthralled as he 
 rushes through them with breathless Interest 'from cover to cover.* " — 
 Observer. 
 
 Orange and Green: A Tale of the Boyne and Limer- 
 ick. ByG. A. Henty. With illustrations by Qordoh Brownb. lUcao. 
 cloth, olivine edges, price $1.00. 
 "The narrative Is free from the vice of prejudice, and ripples with 
 
 life as If what is being descrltied were really passing before ttie eye."— 
 
 Belfast News-Letter. 
 
 Through the Fray: A Story of the Lnddite Eiots. 
 
 By G, A. Henty. With illustrations by H. M. Faqet. 13mo, cloth, olivine 
 > edges, price $1.00. 
 
 i "Mr. Henty inspires a love and admiration for straightforwardness, truth 
 and courage. This is one of the best of the many good books Mr. 
 Henty has produced, and deserves to be classed with bis 'Facing Death.* " 
 —Standard. 
 
 The Toung Midshipman: A Story of the Bombard- 
 ment of Alexandria. With illustrations. ISmo, cloth, olivine edgesi 
 Iirice $1.00. 
 
 A coast fishing lad, by an act of heroism, secures the Interest of 
 a shipowner, who places him as an apprentice on board one of his ships. 
 In company with two of his fellow-apprentices he is left behind, at 
 Alexandria, In the bands of the revolted Egyptian troops, and Is present 
 through the bombardment and the scenes at riot and bloodshed which 
 accompanied It. 
 
 For sNe by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the 
 poUlahe*. A. L, BVSX, fiS-St Suane Street. Hew Yotk. 
 
14 A. ti. BrET^S BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. 
 
 BOOKS FOR BOYS. 
 
 In Times of Peril. A Tale of India. By G. A. 
 
 Henty. With illustrations. ISmo, cloth, olivine edges, price $1.00. 
 
 Tbe hero of the story early excites our admiration, and Is altogether 
 a fine character such as boys will delight in, whilst the story of the 
 campaign is very graphically told," — St, Jameses Gazette. ^ 
 
 The Cornet of Horse : A Tale of Marlborongli's Wars. 
 
 By G. A. HB14TY. With illustrations. 12mo, cloth, olivine edges, price $1. 
 
 "Mr, Henty not only concocts a thrilling tale, he weaves fact and fiction 
 
 together with so skillful a hand that the reader cannot help acquiring a; 
 
 just and clear Tiew of that fierce and terrible struggle known as tbd 
 
 Crimean War." — Athensum. { 
 
 The Young Franc-Tiretirs : Their Adventures in the 
 
 Franco-Prussian War. By G. A. Henty. With iilustrations. ISmo, cloth, 
 
 olivine edges, price $1.00. 
 
 "A capital book for boys. It is bright and readable, and full of good 
 sense and manliness. It teaches pluck and patience In adversity, and 
 shows that right living leads to success." — Observer* 
 
 The Young Colonists: A Story of Life and War in 
 
 South Africa. By G. A. Henty, With illustrations. ISmo, (doi^, olivina 
 
 edges, price ^l-OO. 
 
 "No boy needs to have any story of Henty*s recommended to him, and 
 parents who do not know and buy them for their boys should be ashamed 
 of themselves. Those to whom he is yet unknown could not make a 
 better beginning than with this book. 
 
 The Young Buglers. A Tale of the Peninsular War. 
 
 By G. A. Henty. With illustrations. 12mo, cloth, olivine edges, price $1. 
 
 "Mr. Henty Is a giant among boys* writers, and his books are snffl* 
 ciently popular to he sure of a welcome anywhere. In stirring lntereBt» 
 this is quite up to the level of Mr, Henty's former historical tales."— 
 Saturday Kevlew. 
 
 Sturdy and Strong; or. How George Andrews Made his 
 
 Way. By G. A. Henty. With illustrations. 12mo, cloth, olivine edges, 
 
 price Sl.OO. 
 
 "The history of a hero of everyday life, whose love of tr th, clothing of 
 modesty, and innate pluck, carry him, naturally, from poverty to afflu- 
 ence. George Andrews is an example of character with nothing to cavil 
 at, and stands as a good instance of chivalry in domestic life." — The 
 Empire. 
 
 Among Malay Pirates. A Story of Adventure and 
 
 Peril. By G. A. Henty. With illustrations. ISmo, cloth, olivine ed^s« 
 
 price $1.00. 
 
 "Incident succeeds Incident, and adventure Is piled upon adventui>e, 
 and at the end the reader, be he boy or man, will have experienced 
 breathless enjoyment in a romantic story that must have tan^t Mm 
 much at its close." — ^Army and Navy Gazette. 
 
 Jack Archer. A Tale of the Crimea. By (Jo A. 
 
 Henty. With illustrations. 13rao, cloth, olivine edges, price $1.00. 
 
 "Mr. Henty not only concocts a thrilling tale, he weaves fact and flcfctor 
 together with so skillful a hand that the reader cannot help acquiring s, 
 just and clear view of that fierce and terrible struggle."— %Atlionsuiii. 
 
 Bbi Bale py aU booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by if^^- 
 pnbtlaberp 4- 3t. ©TOT, 6»-69 l)«aa» Itr^et, ITew Xprt. 
 
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 BOOKS FOR BOYS. 
 
 Friends, Though Divided. A Tale of the Civil War. 
 
 By G. A. Henty. With illustrations. ISmo, cloth, olivine edges, price $1. 
 
 !■'* *"?? * ^""^ "'"*• ** abonnfls in action; the scenes are equally spirited 
 ena realistic, and we can only say we have read it with much pleasure 
 irom first to last." — Times* 
 
 Out on the Pampas; or. The Young Settlers. Bj 
 
 G. A. Hkhtt. With illustrations. 12mo, cloth, olivine edges, price $1.90. 
 
 "A really noble story, which adult readers will find to the full as satla- 
 &lng as the boys. Lucky boys! to have such a caterer as Mr. G. A. 
 Henty." — Black and White. 
 
 The Boy Knight: A Tale of the Crusades. By G. A. 
 
 Hknty. With illustrations. 12mo, cloth, olivine edges, price $1.00. 
 
 "Of stirring episode there is no lack. The book, with its careful accu- 
 racy and Its descriptions of all the chief battles, will give many a school- 
 boy his first real understanding of a very Important period of history." — 
 St. James's Gazette. 
 
 The Wreck of the Golden Fleece. The Story of a Forth 
 
 Sea Fisher Boy. By Eobeet Lbighton. lamo, cloth, illustrated, price 81. 
 
 A description of life on the wild North Sea. — the hero belUK a parson's 
 son who is appreciated on board a Lowestoft fishing lugger. The lad has 
 to suffer many buffets from his shipmates, while the storms and dangers 
 which he braved on board the "North Star" are set forth with minute 
 knowledge and intense power. The wreck of the "Golden Fleece'* forms 
 the climax to a thrilling series of desperate mischances. 
 
 Olaf the Glorious. A Story of the Viking Age. By 
 
 Robert Leiqhton. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1 .00. 
 
 This story of Olaf the Glorious, King of Norway, opens with the Incident 
 of his being found by his uncle living as a bond-slave in Esthonla; then 
 come his adventures as a Viking and his raids upon the coasts of Scot- 
 land and England, his victorious battle against the English at Maldon in 
 Essex, his being bought eC by Ethelred the Unready, and his conversion 
 to Christianity. He then returns to Pagan Norway, is accepted as king, 
 and converts his people to the Christian faith. 
 
 To Greenland and the Pole. A story of Adventure in 
 
 the Arctic Regions. By Gordon Stables. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1. 
 ' The unfailing fascination of Arctic venturing Is presented In this 8.:oTy 
 with new vividness. It deals with skil&bnins In the north of Scotland, 
 deer-hunting In Norway, sealing in the Arctic Seas, bear-stalking on the 
 ice-fioes, the hardships of a journey across Greenland, and a auccessfuL 
 voyage to the back of the North Pole. This is. Indeed, a real sea-yam 
 by a real sailor, and the tone is as bright and wholesome as the adventures 
 .are numerous. 
 
 Yussuf the Guide. A Story of Adventure in Asia 
 
 Minor. By George Manvu-lb Fenn. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price (l.OQL 
 This story deals with the stirring incidents in the career of a lad wiho bu 
 been almost given over by the doctors, but who rapidly recovers health 
 and strength in a journey through Asia Minor. The adventnirea ase maoK* 
 and culminate in the travellers being snowed up for the winter In t&^ 
 mountains, from which they escape while their capters are waiting tt , 
 the ransom that does not come. 
 
 -!* 
 
 For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of pdce tf tifk 
 publisher, A- li, ^IfSX. iZ-ii Ouaas hix^^t, tr^w Twk. 
 
16 A. L. BURTfS BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. 
 
 BOOKS FOR BOYS. 
 
 Cfrettir the Outlaw, A Story of Iceland. By S. Bar- 
 
 ZKG-GoDLD. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 •*Thls le the boys' book of the year. That fa, of course, as much as 
 to say that it will do for men grown as well as juniors. It Is told in 
 simple, straightforward Englisht as all stories should be, and It has a 
 freshness and freedom which make it irresistible." — National Observer, 
 
 Two Thousand Years Ago. The Adventures of a 
 
 Roman Boy. By A. J. Church, lamo, cloth, illustrated, price §1.00. 
 
 *'Prof. Church has in this story sought to revivify that most interesting 
 period, the last days of the Roman Republic. The book is extremely en- 
 tertaining as well as useful: there is a wonderful freshness in the Roman 
 scenes and characters." — Times, 
 
 Nat the Naturalist. A Boy^s Adventure in the East-* 
 
 ern Seas. By Geokge Manvillb Fenn. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price $1. 
 Nat and his uncle Dick go on a voyage to the remoter islands nf the 
 Eastern seas, and their adventures are told in a truthful and vastly In- 
 teresting* fashion. The descriptions of Mr. Ebony, their black comrade, 
 and of the scenes of savage life, are full of genuine humor. 
 
 The log of the Flying Fish, A Story of Peril and 
 
 Adventure. By Harry Collingwood. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price SI. 
 
 "This story Is full of even more vividly recounted adventures than those 
 whlcll charmed so many boy readers in 'Pii'ate Island' and 'Congo Rovers.' 
 . . . There Is a thrilling adventure on the precipices of Mount Everest^ 
 when the ship floats ofE and providentially returns by force of 'gravita- 
 tion.* " — ^Academy. 
 
 The Congo Rovers, A Story of the Slave Squadron. 
 
 By Harry Collingwood. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price |1.00. 
 
 "The scene of this tale is laid on the west coast of Africa, and in the 
 lower reaches of the Congo; the characteristic scenery of the great river 
 being delineated with wonderful accuracy. Mr. Collingwood carries us ofC 
 for anothbi' cruis at sea, in 'The Congo llovevB,' and boys will need no 
 pressing to Join- the daring crew, which seeks adventures and meets with 
 any number of them." — The Tides. 
 
 Boris the Bear Hnnter. A Tale of Peter the Great and 
 
 His Times. By Fred Wishaw. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 "This is a capital story. The chara -ters are marlced and lifelike, and it 
 is full of incident and adventure." — Standard. 
 
 Hffiohael Strogoff; or, The Courier of the Czar. By 
 
 Jules Vernb. I2mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "The story Is full of originality and vigor. The characters are llfelilte, 
 there is plenty of stirring incident, the interest is sustained throughout, 
 and every boy will enjoy following the fortunes of the hero."— Journal of 
 Education. 
 
 Mother Carey's Chicken. Her Voyage to the Unkno-vra 
 
 Isle. By Gboege Manvule Fenn. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1 .00. 
 
 "Undoubtedly one of the best Mr. Fenn has written. The Incidents are 
 of thrilling Interest, while the characters are drawn with a care and com- 
 pleteness rarely found In a boy's book;." — ^Literary World. 
 
 For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of pvlee by the 
 pmHtohcr, A. L. BUax, 62-S8 Duane Street, Tfew T<ftlt. 
 
A. L. BUBT^S BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. 17 
 
 BOOKS FOR BOYS. 
 
 (Pick Sand; or, A Captain at Fifteen. By Jules 
 
 Terns, 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price Sl.OO. 
 
 *'Jnles Verne taimseU never constmcted a more marvellons tale. It con- 
 tains the strongly marked features tbat are always conspicuous In his 
 stories — a racy humor, the manly vlsror of bis sentiment, and wholesome 
 moral lessons." — Christian Leader. 
 
 Erling the Bold. A Tale of the Norse Sea Kings. 
 
 By R. M. BALi.ANTTinc 13mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "This volume makes a really fascinating book, worthy of Its telling 
 title. There Is, we venture to say, not a dull chapter in the book, not 
 a page which will not bear a second reading." — Guardian, 
 
 Mastennan Ready; or, The Wreck of the Pacific. By 
 
 Captain Marrtat. 13ino, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "As racy a tale of life at sea and adventure as we have met with for 
 some time. . , . Altogether the sort of book that boys will revel in." 
 — Atheneum. 
 
 The Oreen Mountain Boys. A Tale of the Early Set- 
 tlement of Vermont. By D. p. Thompson. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price St 
 A story of very great interest for boys. In his own forcible style the 
 author has endeavored to show that determination and patriotic enthu- 
 siasm can accomplish marvellous results. This story gives a graphic ac- 
 count of the early settlers of Vermont, and their patriotic efforts in de- 
 fending their homes from the Invasions of enemies. 
 
 Every Inch a Sailor. By Goedon Stables. 13mo, 
 
 doth, illustrated, price $1.U0. 
 
 "A story which is quite as good in its way as 'Treasure Island,' and is 
 full of adventure of a stirring yet most natural kind. Although It is 
 primarily a boys' book, it is a real godsend to the elderly reader." — 
 Evening Times, 
 
 The Golden Galleon. A Narrative of Adventure on 
 
 Her Majesty's Ship the Bevenge. By Bobbrt Lziqhtoh. 12mo, cloth, 
 
 illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "This story should add considerably to Mr. Lelgbton's high reputation. 
 Excellent in every respect, it contains every variety of incident. The plot 
 Is very cleverly devised, and the types of the North Sea sailors are 
 capital.'.' — The Times. 
 
 The Gorilla Hunters. A Tale of the Wilds of Africa. 
 
 By R. M. Ballaktybk. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 "We conscientiously bellve that boys will And It capital reading. It la 
 full of incident and mystery, and the mystery Is kept up to the last 
 moment. It is full of stirring adventure, daring and many escapes: and 
 it has a historical interest." — Times. 
 
 Gascoyne the Sandalwood Trader. By B. M. Bal< 
 
 LANTYHB. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "One of the best stories of seafaring life and adventure «vhlcb have 
 appeared this season. Entertaining in the highest degree from IwglnnlnE 
 to end, and full of adventure which Is all the livelier for its close con- 
 nection with history." — S pectator. 
 
 For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by tbt 
 publisher, A. I>. BUKT, 62-S8 Duane Street, Mew York, 
 
18 A. L. BUET'S books for young PEOPLl. 
 
 BOOKS FOR BOYS. 
 
 Two Tears Before tlie Mast. 'A Personal NarraliTe of 
 
 Life at Sea. By E. H. Dana, JbJ IZmo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "One ot the Tery best books for boys that we have seen for a long time: 
 Kb author stands far In advance of any other writer for boys as a teller 
 of stories at the sea." — ^Ihe Standard. 
 
 The Young Bajah. A Story of Indian Life. By W. 
 
 H. Q. Kingston. 12mo, doth, illustrated, price Jl.OO. 
 
 •'This story will place the author at once in the front rank. It Is fnU 
 of lite and adventure, and the interest Is sustained without a break from 
 first to last." — Standard. 
 
 How Jack Mackenzie Won His Epaulettes. A Story 
 
 of the Crimean War. By Gordon Stables, lamo, cloth, illustrated, 
 
 price $1.00. 
 
 "This must rank among the few undeniably good boys* books. He 
 will be a very dull boy Indeed who lays it down without wishing that 
 It had gone on for at least 100 pages more." — MaiL • 
 
 The King's Pardon. A Story of Land and Sea. By 
 
 EoBBRT OvKETON. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 *'An excellent story, the interest being sustained from first to last. 
 This is, both in its intention and the way the story is told, one of the 
 best books of its kind which has come before us this year." — Saturday 
 Beview. 
 
 Under the Lone Star. A Story of the Eevolution in 
 
 Nicaragua. By Hekbeet Haynes. lamo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "We have not of late come across a historical fiction, whether intended 
 for boys or for men, which deserves to be so heartily and unreservedly 
 praised as regards plot, incidents, and spirit as this book, it is Its aa« 
 thor's masterpiece as yet." — Spectator. 
 
 Geoff and Jim: A Story of School Life. By Ismay 
 
 Thorn. 13mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 "This is a prettily told story of the life spent by two motherless balma 
 at a small preparatory school. Both Geoff and Jim are very lovable char- 
 acters, only Jim is the more so; and the scrapes he gets Into and the 
 trials he endures will, no doubt, interest a large circle of young readers." 
 —Church Times. 
 
 Jack: A Topsy Tnrry Story. By C. M. Ceawlet- 
 
 BoETET. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cente. 
 
 "The Illustrations deserve particular mention, as they add largely to 
 the interest of this amusing volume for children. Jack falls asleep with 
 his mind full of the subject of the fishpond, and Is very much surprised 
 presently to find himself an inhabitant of Waterworld, wliere he goes 
 through wonderful and edifying adyentores. ^ handsome and pleasant 
 book." — ^Literary World. 
 
 Black Beauty. The Autobiography of a Horse. By 
 
 Anna Seiweu.. l2mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 This is the life story of a horse; how he was ill treated and weH 
 cared for. 'The experiences of Black Beauty, Ginger, and Merrylegs ar« 
 extremely Interesting. Wherever children are, whettier boys or girls, there 
 this Autobiography should be. It inculcates habits of kindness to all loeai- 
 bers of the animal creation. The literary merit of the book is excellent. 
 
 For sale h^ all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of mice hf tbo 
 puttUsber, A, I>. BTSWB. iS^Si Suane Street, Sev YtA, 
 
A. Ifc BTJBT^S BOOKS FOR YO TJNG PEOPLE. 19 
 
 BOOKS FOR BOYS. 
 
 Mopsa the Fairy. By Jean Ingelow. ISmo, cloth, 
 
 illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 "Mrs. Ingelow l8, to onr mind, the most charming of all living writers 
 for cbll^en, and 'Mopsa* alone onght to give her a kind of pre-emptive 
 right to the love and gratitude of our young folks. It requires genius 
 to conceive a purely imaginary work which must of necessity deal with 
 the supernatural, without running into a mere riot of fantastic absurdity; 
 bnt genius Mrs. Ingelow has, and the story of 'Jack' is as careless and 
 Joyous, but as delicate as a picture of childhood." — Ecleotio. 
 
 Carrots: Just a Little Boy. By Mrs. Moleswoeth. 
 
 ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 "One of the cleverest and most pleasing stories It has been our good 
 fortune to meet with for some time. Carrots and his sister are delight- 
 ful little beings, whom to read about is at once to become very fond of. 
 A genuine children's book; we've seen 'em seize it, and read it greedily. 
 Children are first-rate critics, and thoroughly appreciate Walter Crane's 
 Illustrations. ' ' — Funch. 
 
 Larry's Luck. By the author of "Miss Toosey's Mis- 
 sion." ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 "It is believed that this story, by this favorably known anthc of 
 •Miss Toosey's Mission,' will be found both highly Interesting and instruc- 
 tive to the young. Whether the readers are nine years old, or twice as 
 old, they must enjoy this pretty volume." — The Examiner. 
 
 A Child's Christmas: A Sketch of Boy Life. By Mrs. 
 
 HoLBSWORTH. ISmo, ctoth, illustrated, price 76 cents. 
 "This Is another of those delightful Juvenile stories of which this author 
 has written -so many. It is a fascinating little book, with a charming 
 plot, a sweet, pure atmosphere, and teaches a wholesome moral In the 
 most winning manner." — Gazette, 
 
 Chunk, Fusky and Snout. A Story of Wild Pigs for 
 
 LitUe People. By Gerald Young. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 "The story is an extremely interesting one, full of incident, told in a 
 
 quiet, healthful way, and with a great deal of pleasantly Interfused 
 
 information about wild pigs and their ways. It Is sure to Interest both 
 
 hoys and girls."— Christian Vnion. 
 
 Daddy's Boy. By L. T. Meade. ISmo, cloth, illus- 
 trated, price 75 cents. 
 
 "A charming story of child life. Little Sir Rowland Is one of the 
 most fascinating of the misunderstood child heroes of the day. The quaint 
 doings and imaginings of this gentle, lovable, but highly original child are 
 Introduced by Mrs. Meade, with all her accustomed pathos." — Guardian. 
 
 Adventures of Prince Prigio. Bt Andrew Lang. 
 
 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 "This book has so much charm of style and good writing that It wlU b* 
 eagerly read by many other than the young folk for whom It Is intended." 
 —'Black and White. 
 
 A Plock of Four. A Story for Boys and Girls. By 
 
 IsuAT Thorn. 12mo, doth. Illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 "As a gift book for boys it is among the best new books of the klad. 
 The story is I nteresting and natural, from first to last." — Gazette. 
 
 For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of p>lce tf ttM 
 l^bUther, A. Z. BUSI, S2-SS Ouoaa Stieeti Hew Vork. 
 
20 A. L. BUBT^S BOOKS gOS ^OUNG PSOt^LE. 
 
 ^■^-^^■1 M m ■ I ■ II II I ■ ■ ■ ■ — 1^— ^■^— ^^— ■— ^^^— "^—^ "^^"^ 
 
 BOOKS FOR BOYS. 
 
 A Flat Iron for a Farthing. The Story of an Only 
 
 Son. By Jbliaka Horatia Ewiho. lUmo, cloth, Illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 "A Tery good book It ta, foil of adventnra, eraphically told. The style 
 Is Just what it should be: simple but not bold, full of pleasant humor, 
 and with some pretty touches of feeling. Like all Mrs. Bwlng'B tales. 
 It is sound, sensible, and wholesome." — ^limeB. 
 
 The Greek Heroes. Fairy Tales for My Children. By 
 
 Charles KisasLXS. IScoo, cloth, illnstrated, price 75 cents. 
 "We da not think these heroic stories have ever been more attractively 
 told. . . There is a deep under-current of religious feeling traceable 
 throughout its pages which is sure to influence young readers power- 
 fully. One of the children's books that will surely become a classic"— i 
 London Beview. 
 
 Jackanapes. By Juliana Hoeatia Ewinq. 12mo, 
 
 cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 "This is one of Mrs. Bwing's charming little stories for yonng children. 
 The narrative ... is full of interest for its real grace and delicacy, 
 and the exqnisiteness and purity of the English in which It is written."—. 
 Boston Advertiser. 
 
 Princess and Cnrdie. By Geoege Macdonald. 12mo, 
 
 doth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 "One of the cleverest and most pleasing stories it has been our good 
 fortune to meet with for some time. The Princess and Curdle are delight- 
 ful little beings, whom to read about is at once to become very fond of." 
 —Examiner. 
 
 Peter the Pilgrim. The Story of a Boy and His Pet 
 
 Eabbit By L. T. Meadk. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 15 cents. 
 "Little Peter, with his soft heart, clever head, and brave spirit Is no 
 morbid presentment of the angelic child 'too good to live,* and who is 
 certainly a nuisance on earth, but a charming creature, if not a por- 
 trait, whom it is a privilege to meet even in fiction." — The Academy. 
 
 We and the World. A Story for Boys. By Juliana 
 
 EoRATiA EwiNS. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price 76 cents. 
 
 "The author has evidently studied the ways and tastes of children and 
 got at the secret of amusing them; and has succeeded in what is not 
 so easy a task as it may seem — ^in producing a really good children's 
 book." — Dally Telegraph, 
 
 little Ivan's Hero. A Story of Child Life. By 
 
 Helen Mximas. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 *'We shonld imagine those queer folk Indeed who could not read this 
 story with eager Interest and pleasure, be they boys or girls, young or 
 old. We highly commend the style in which the book is written, and the 
 spirit which pervades it." — World. 
 
 Dick, Marjorie and Fidge. The Wonderful Adventures 
 
 of Three Little People. By G. E. Farrow. iSmo, cloth, illusrd, price 75c. 
 
 '* . . . To the young, for whom it Is especially Intended, this Is a 
 most interesting book of adventures, well told, and a pleasant book to 
 take up when their wish is to while away a weary half-hour. We have 
 seen no prettier gift-book for a long time." — Athenteum. 
 
 For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price hy tti^ 
 publisher, A. L. BXTfiT, 62-66 Jgg^ Street, New To^. 
 
A. L. BURT^S BOO KS FOE YOUNG PEOPLE. 21 
 
 BOOKS FOR BOYS. 
 
 A Wonder Book: For Boys and Girls. Comprising 
 
 stories of Classical Fables. By Nathaniel Hawthobhe. 18mo, cloth. 
 Illustrated, price 75 cents. v..v/u», 
 
 <ntl^„^*"*v"'/'Sl*.^*°?'- it.'^i," •'^ ""^^ ^*^ delight by every cMld 
 Into whose hands It is placed."— Gazette. ' ■ j ^^^it 
 
 My Dog Plato: His Adventures and Impressions. By 
 
 H. M. Cornwall Lbgh. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 76 cents. 
 "A capital story, and one we heartily commend to boy readers, both 
 gentle and simple." — Guardian. 
 
 Squib and His Friends. A Story for Children. By 
 
 Ellen Etekbtt Green. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 "This book will please by its simplicity, its tenderness, and its healthy 
 Interesting motive. It is admirably written." — Scotsman. 
 
 Tom's Opinion. The Story of a Boys' School. By 
 
 the author of " Miss Toosey's Mission." 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price TSo, 
 "A lieaatifnl little story. ... It will be read with delight by 
 every boy Into whose hands It Is placed." — ^Fall Hall Gazette. 
 
 Robin's Kide. A Story for Children. By Ellinok 
 
 D. Adaus. IZmo, cloth. Illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 "It Is a first-rate boys' boolc. It Is'a capital story; the charaeten an 
 well drawn, and the Incidents are perfectly natural." — Times. 
 
 Peter and Tom. A Story for Boys. By Belle S. 
 
 Craqin. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 Peter and Tom were unlikely heroes, particularly In the direction of 
 heroism, bnt tbe proper chord was tonched In each of their lives, and 
 through many trials and adventures they developed Christian principles and 
 successful business traits. 
 
 Nurse Heatherdale's Story. By Mes. Moleswobth. 
 
 12ino, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 " 'Nurse Heatberdale's Story' is all about a small boy, who was good 
 enough, yet was always getting into some trouble through complications 
 In which he was not to blame. He is an orphan, though he is cared for in 
 a way by relations, who are not so very rich, yet are looked on as well 
 Used. After many youthful trials and disappointments he falls into a 
 big stroke of good Inck, which lifts him and goes to make others happy." 
 — «onuneroial Advertiser. 
 
 The Last of the Huggermuggers. A Giant Story. By 
 
 Christopher F. Crauch. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 *'Fresh and charming in style, with fun that is never forced, pathos 
 that Is always genuine, and with a distinctly wholesome purpose. This is 
 certain to be a favorite with boys." — Literary World. 
 
 Thfl Hunting of the Snark. By Lewis Caeeoll, 
 
 author of "Alice kx Wonderland." ISmo, cloth, Illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 "Whether as regarding author or illustrator, this book is a Jftwel 
 
 rarely to be found nowadays. Not a whit inferior to its predecessor in 
 
 gvand extravagance of imagination, and delicious allegorical nonsense.'* 
 
 — Quarterly Seview. 
 
 For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by tin 
 publisher, A> L. BVBT, Bt-ii Duane Street, New York, 
 
22 A. L. BURT'S BOOKS FO R YOUNG PEOPLE. 
 
 BOOKS FOR GIRLS. 
 
 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. By Lewis Cabroul, 
 
 I2mo, cloth, iS) illustrations, price 75 cents. 
 
 "From first to last, almost without exception, this story Is dellgbtfnUy 
 droUp humorous and Illustrated In harmony with the atory." — ^M'ew York 
 Express. 
 
 Tlirougk the looking Glass, and What Alice Found 
 
 There. By Lewis Carroll. 13mo, cloth, 60 illustrations, price 75 cents. 
 "A. delight alike to the young people and their elders, extremely funny 
 both in text and Illustrations." — Boston Express. 
 
 little Lucy's Wonderful Globe. By Chaelottb M. 
 
 ToHQS. ISimo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 "This story Is unique among tales Intended for children, alike for pleaS' 
 ant instruction, qualntness of humor, gentle pathos, and the subtlety with 
 which lessons moral and otherwise are conveyed to children, and perhaps 
 to their seniors as well." — The Spectator. 
 
 Joan's Adventures at the North Pole and Elsewhere. 
 
 Br AuoB CoRERAN. 13mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 ''Wonderful as the adventures of Joan are. It must be admitted that 
 they are very naturally worked out and very plausibly presented. Alto- 
 gether this is an exceUent story for girls." — Saturday Review. 
 
 Count Up the Sunny Days : A Story for Girls and Boys. 
 
 By C. A. JoHBS. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 "An unusually good children's story." — Glasgow Herald, 
 
 The Heir of Redclyffe. By Chablotte M. Yonge. 
 
 IZmo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "A narrative full of Interest from first to last. It Is told clearly and la 
 a straightforward manner, and arrests the attention of the reader at once, 
 BO that one feels afresh the unspeakable pathos of the story to the end." — 
 £,oudon Grraphio. 
 
 The Dove in the Eagle's Nest. By Chablotte M. 
 
 ToHOB. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "Among all the modem writers we believe Miss Yonge first, not in 
 genius, but in this, that she employs her great abilities for a high and 
 noble purpose. We know of few modem writers whose works may be so 
 safely commended as hers." — Cleveland Times. 
 
 Jan of the Windmill. A Story of the Plains. By Mbs. 
 
 J. H. Ewma. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "Never has Mrs. Bwlng published a more charming volume, and that 
 is saying a very great deal. From the first to the last the boolc over- 
 flows with the strange knowledge of child-nature which so rarely sur- 
 vives childhood; and moreover, with inexhanstible quiet humor, whkdi 
 Is never anything but innocent and well-bred, never priggish, and never 
 elnmsy. ' ' — Academy. 
 
 A Sweet Girl Graduate. By L. T. Meade. IZmo, doth, 
 
 iUustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "One of this popular author's best. The ebaraetera are well Imagined 
 and drawn. The story moves with plenty of spirit and the Interest dees 
 not flag nntil the end too quickly comes." — Providenoe Jonmal. 
 
 For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by tin 
 piAUBfaer. £ £. BXIZT, S2-68 Duaae Btraat, Sam TorL 
 
JL L. buet's books for young people. 23 
 
 BOOKS FOR GIRLS. 
 
 Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls. By Juliana! 
 
 HoRATU. Ewma. 12ino, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "Tbere la no doubt as to the good quality and attractlveneiB of 'Six t* 
 filxteen.' The book 1b one which would enrich any girl's book shelf."— 
 Bt. James' Gasette. 
 
 The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls. By L. T. 
 
 Mkade. ISmo, clotb, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 **A bright and Interesting story. The many admirers of Mrs. L. T. 
 Meade In tbls country will be delighted with the 'Palace Beautiful' for 
 more reasons than one. It Is a charming book for girls."— ^ew Tuk 
 Kewrdsr, 
 
 A World of Girls: The Story of a School. By L. T. 
 
 MsADE. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "One of those wholesome stories which It does one good to read. It 
 will afford pure delight to numerous readers. tTfals book Bboold be on 
 every girl's book shelf."— Boston Home Journal. 
 
 The Lady of the Forest : A Story for Girls. By L. T. 
 
 Heads. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "This story Is written In the author's well-known, fresh and easy style. 
 All elrls fond of reading will be charmed by this well-written story. It 
 Is told with the author's customary grace and spirit." — Boston Times. 
 
 At the Back of the North Wind. By Geobge Mao- 
 
 dosjlLD. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "A very pretty story, with much of the freshness and vigor of Mr. Mae- 
 donald's earlier work. . . . It is a sweet, earnest, and wholesome fairy 
 story, and the quaint native humor Is delightful. A most delightful vol. 
 ume (or juung readers." — Philadelphia Times. 
 
 The Water Bahies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby. 
 
 By Charles KraosLKY. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price $1,00. 
 
 "The strength of bis work, as well as Its peculiar charms, consist In 
 his description of the experiences of a youth with life under water In the 
 luxuriant wealth of which he revels with all the ardor of a poetical na- 
 ture." — New York Tribune. 
 
 Our Bessie. By Eosa N. Caeet. ISmo, cloth, illus- 
 
 ■trated, price Sl.oa 
 
 "One of the most entertaining stories of the season, full of Tlgoioiu 
 action, and strong In character-painting. Elder girls will be charmed wltb 
 It, and adults may read its pages with profit." — The Teaohers' Aid. 
 
 Wild Kitty. A Story of Middleton School. B7 L. T, 
 
 HsADE. 13mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "Kitty Is a tme heroine — warm-hearted, self-sacrlfielne, and, as all 
 ■eod women nowadays are, largely touched with the enthusiasm of hnmau- 
 ^T One of the most attractive gift books of the season." — The Jroademy. 
 
 A Young Mutineer. A Story for Girls, By L. T. 
 
 UxASE. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "One nf Mrs. Meade's charming books for girls, narrated in t&at simple 
 and picturesque style which marks the authoress oa one of tbe flrat amang 
 writers for young people." — The Spectator. 
 
 For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on lecebit of price br the 
 pnbUsher, A. L. SOST, 62-U Duane Stiest, Saw Yock. 
 
24 A. L. bust's books foe young people. 
 BOOKS FOR GIRLS. 
 
 Sue and I, By Mrs. O'Eeillt, 12mo, cloth, illus- 
 trated, price 75 eents. 
 "A thoroughly delightful book, fall of eound vrlsdom as well as fan."— 
 
 Atheneeum. 
 
 The Princess and the Goblin. A Fairy Story. By 
 
 QsoRas Macdosau). 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 76 cents. 
 
 ♦If a child once begins thi8 book, it will get bo deeply Interested In 
 it that when bedtime comes it will altogether forget the moral, and will 
 weary Its parents with Importunities for Just a ttw minutes more to see 
 how everything ends." — Saturday Keview. 
 
 Pythia's Pupils: A Story of a School. By Eva 
 
 Hahtner. 12mo, cloth. Illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "This story of the doings of several bright school girls Is sure to interest 
 girl readers. Among many good stories for girls this is undoubtedly one 
 of the very best." — Teachers* Aid* 
 
 A Story of a Short Life. By Juliana Hoeatia Ewing. 
 
 ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price $100. 
 
 "The boo]£ is one we can heartily recommend, for it is not only bright 
 and interesting, but also pure and healthy in tone and teaching." — 
 Courier. 
 
 The Sleepy Zing. A Fairy Tale. By Aubebt Hop- 
 wood ASD Seymour Hices. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 "Wonderful as the adventures of Bluebell are, it must be admitted that 
 
 they are very naturally worlied out and very plausibly presented. 
 
 Altogether this is an excellent story for girls." — Saturday Esview. 
 
 Two Little Waifs. By Mes. Molbswoeth. 12mo, 
 
 cloth, illustrated, price 76 cents. 
 
 "IMrs. Molesworth's delightful story of 'Two Little Waifs' will charm 
 all the small people who find it in their stockings. It relates the ad- 
 ventures of two lovable English children lost in Paris, and is Just wonder- 
 ful enough to pleasantly wring the youthful heart." — ^New York Tribune. 
 
 Adventures in Toyland. By Edith King Hall. ISmo, 
 
 cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 "The author is such a bright, cheery writer, that her stories are 
 always acceptable to all who are not confirmed cynics, and her record of 
 the adventures is as entertaining and enjoy^le as we might expect.''— 
 Boston Courier. 
 
 Adventures in Wallypug Land. By G. B. Faeeow. 
 
 ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 "These adventures are simply inimitable, and will delight boys and girla 
 of mature age, as well as their Juniors. No happier combination of 
 author and artist than this volume presents could be found to furnish 
 healthy amusement to the young folks. The book is an artistic one in 
 every sense." — Toronto Mail, 
 
 Pussbudget's Folks. A Story for Young Girls. By 
 
 Abha F. Bdknham. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 *'Mrs. Burnbam has a rare gift for composing stories for children. With 
 a light, yet forcible touch, she paints sweet and artless, yet natural and 
 Strong, characters. ' '^3ongregationali st. 
 
 For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of pdoe by tlw 
 oatdiBber, A. L. BDBT, 6ii-S6 Suane Btssei, New Tots. 
 
A. L. BURT^S fiOOKS FOE YOUNG PEOPLE. 25 
 
 BOOKS FOR GIRLS. 
 
 Mixed Pickles. A Story for Girls. By Mes. B. M. 
 
 Field. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 76 cents. 
 
 "It Is, In Its way, a little classic, of which the real beauty and patbea 
 can hardly be appreciated by young pet.|i!e. It is not too much to siJr 
 of the story that It Is perfect of Its kind."— Good Literature. 
 
 Miss Mouse and Her Boys. A Story for Girls. By 
 
 Hbs. Molssworth. 13mo, doth, illustrated, price 76 cents. 
 "Mrs. Molesworth's books are cheery, wholesome, and particularly well 
 adapted to refined life. It is sate to add that she is the best English proM 
 writer for children. A new volume from Mrs. Molesworth is sjwaya a 
 treat.*' — The Beacon. 
 
 Gilly Flower. A Story for Girls. By the author of 
 
 " Miss Toosey's Mission." 12ino, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "Jill is a little guardian angel to three lively brothers who tease and 
 play witb her. . . . Her unconscious goodness brings right thoughts 
 and resolves to several persons who come into contact with her. There !■ 
 no goodineas in this tale, but its infiuence is of the best kind." — Literary 
 Wofld. 
 
 The Chaplet of Pearls ; or, The White and Black Eibau- 
 
 mont. By Chablottb M. Yonqe. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "Fnll of spirit and life, so well sustained tbroughout that grown-up 
 readers may enjoy it as much as children. It is one of the best books of 
 the season.'*— Guardian. 
 
 Haughty Miss Bunny: Her Tricks and Troubles. By 
 
 Clara Mclhollahs. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price 76 cents. 
 "The naughty child is positively delightfnl. Papas should not omit the 
 book from their list of Juvenile presents." — Land and Water. 
 
 Meg's Friend. By Alice Coekean. 12mo, cloth, 
 
 illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "One of Miss Gorkran's charming books for girls, narrated in that simple 
 and picturesque style which marks the authoress as one of the first among 
 writers for young people." — The Spectator. 
 
 Averil. By Eosa N. Caeet. 12mo, doth, illustrated, 
 
 price $1.00. 
 
 "A charming story for yonng folks. Averll is a delightful creature — 
 piquant, tender, and true — end her varying fortunes are perfectly real- 
 istic. "—'World. 
 
 Aunt Diana. By Eosa IT. Caret. 12mo, elotii, illus- 
 trated, price $i.oo. 
 
 "An excellent story, the Interest being sustained from first to last. 
 This is, both in its intention and the way the story is told, one of the 
 best books of Its kind which has come before us this year." — Saturday 
 Review. 
 
 Little Sunshine's Holiday: A Picture from Life. By 
 
 Miss Mdlock. 12ino, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 , "This is a pretty narrative of child life, describing the simple doings 
 and sayings of a very charming and rather precocious child. This is a 
 
 delightfnl book for yonng people."— Gazette. 
 
 For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by tba 
 publisher, A. L. BVBX, tM» Snane Street, Kew York, 
 
26 A. L. BtJET^S BOOKS J'Oa tOlTNG PEOPLE. 
 
 ».i I — I ■ ■ III H^ii — 
 
 BOOKS FOR GIRLS. 
 
 Esther's Charge. A Story for Girls. By Ellen Evebem 
 
 Qasswu. iSSmo, cloth, iUustrated, price SIM. 
 
 "... Tbis is a 3tory stiowins in a charming way how one httto 
 Sirl'8 Jealousy and bad temper were conquered; one of the best, most 
 saggesttre and Improving of tlie Christnuia juveniles." — Mew York Xrik- 
 
 BBO. 
 
 Fairy Land of Science. By Arabella B. Buckley. > 
 
 Utno, doth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 **We can highly recommend it; not odly for the Talnable Informatioo 
 It glTCa on the special subjects to which it is dedicated, bnt also as a 
 hook teaching natural sciences in an interesting way. A fascinating 
 little volume, which will make friends in every household in which there 
 are children.'' — Sally News. 
 
 Kerle's Crusade. By Bosa N. Cabey. 12ino, cloth, 
 
 illastrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "AflBong the books for young people we have Been nothing more unique 
 tkan this book. Like all of this author's stories it will please young read- 
 eta by tile very attractive and charming style In which it is written."— 
 Tenriial, 
 
 Birdi*: A Tale of Child Life. By H. L. Childb- 
 
 Pbubebton. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 "The story Is quaint and simple, bnt there Is a freshness about it 
 that makes one hear again the ringing laugh and the cheery shout of chil- 
 dren at play which charmed his earlier years." — New Yolk Express. 
 
 The Days of Brace: A Story from Scottish History. 
 
 By Gkaoe Aemi.AB. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "There is a delightful freshness, sincerity and vivacity about all of Grace 
 AguUar's stories which cannot fail to win the Interest and admiration of 
 every lover of good reading." — Boston Beacon. 
 
 Three Bright Girls : A Story of Chance and Mischance. 
 
 By Annie E. Asmstbono. 12mo, eloUi, illustrated, prise $1.00. 
 
 "The charm of the "Stoi^ Jies In the cheery helpfulness of spirit devel- 
 oped in the girls by th^i* chang^ circumstances; while the author finds 
 a pleaannt ending to all their happy makeshifts. The stpty is charmingly 
 told, and the book can be warm^ recommended as a present for girls.'-— 
 Standard. 
 
 Giannette: A Girl's Story of Herself. By Eosa Mul- 
 
 BOUUiiDk ISmo, doth, iUuetratedt price $1.00. 
 
 "Bxtiemely well told and fuU of interest. Glannetta Is a true heroine-. > 
 wann-h^rted, self-sacrificing^ and, as all good women nowadays are. 
 luga^ touched with enthusiasm of humanity. The illustrations are nn- ^ 
 ■snau^ Bocd. One of the most attractive gift books of the season." — Xha 
 
 Kazgery Merton's Girlhood. By Alice Coeesan. 
 
 ISmo, dotii, illustrated, price tlOO. 
 
 *Tb% experiences of an orphan girl who in Infancy Is left by her 
 fafter to the cfire of an elderly aunt residing near Parts. The accounts 
 of tlw various persons who have an after influence on the story are sin- 
 golarly vivid. There is a subtle attraction about the book which will make 
 It ». great favorite with thoughtful girls." — Saturday Baview. 
 
 For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of pilee if ft0 
 MUHbet. A. L. MUS/X- fi2-68 Onane Street, Hew Toik. 
 
A. L. BTJRT^S BOOKS FOB YOUNG PEOPLE. 27 
 
 BOOKS FOR GIRLS. 
 
 Under False Colors: A Story from Two Girls' LiveB. 
 
 By Sarah Doosnev. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price Sl.OO. 
 
 "Sarah Doudney baa no superior as a writer of high-toned stories— pnra 
 In stylo, original in conception, and with BkillfoUy wrought oat plots; bnt 
 vc have seen nothing equal in dramatic energy to iMa book." — Clulnhui 
 Leader. 
 
 Bown the Snow Stairs; or, From Good-night to Good- 
 morning. By Aliob Corkran. 18mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 "Among all the Christmas volumes which the year has brought to our 
 tabic tills one stands out facile prinoeps — a gem of the first water, bearing 
 upon every one of its pages the signet mark of genius. . . . All is told 
 with such simplicity and perfect naturalness that the dream appears to be 
 a solid reality. It is indeed a Little Pilgrim's Progress." — (SiriatlaB 
 leader. 
 
 The Tapestry Room: A Child's Eomance. By Mrs. 
 
 UouswoRTB. 12tno, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 "Mrs. Molesworth is a charming painter of the nature and ways of 
 children; and she has done good service in giving ns this charming 
 javenlle which will delight the young people." — ^Athenasnm, London. 
 
 little Miss Peggy: Only a Nursery Story. By Mrs. 
 
 KoLBSwoRTH. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 Mrs. Molesworth's children are finished studies. A Joyous earnest spirit 
 pervades her work, and her sympathy is unbounded. She loves them 
 with her whole heart, while she lays bare their little minds, and expresses 
 their foibles, their faults, their virtues, their inward struggles, their 
 conception of duty, and their instinctive knowledge of the right and wrong 
 of things. She knows their characters, she understands their wants, 
 and she desires to help' them. 
 
 Polly: A New Fashioned Girl. By L. T. Meade. 
 
 18mo, cloth, illustrated, price SI .00. 
 
 Few authors have achieved a popularity equal to Mrs. Heade as a 
 writer of stories for young girls. Her characters are living beings of 
 flesh and blood, not lay figures of conventional type. Into the trials 
 and crosses, and everyday experiences, the reader enters at once with zest 
 and hearty sympathy. While Mrs. Meade always writes with a high 
 moral purpose, her lessons of life, purity and nobility of character are 
 rather inculcated by example than intruded as sermons. 
 
 One of a Covey. By the author of "Miss Toosey's 
 
 Uission." 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 "Full of spirit and life, so well sustained throughout that grown-ap 
 Naders may enjoy it as much as children. This 'Covey* consists of the 
 twelve children of a hard-pressed Dr. Partridge out of which is chosen a 
 Uttle girl to be adapted by a spoiled, fine lady. We have rarely read 
 a story for boys and girls with greater pleamre. One of the chief char- 
 acters would not have disgraced Dickens' pen." — Literary World. 
 
 The little Princess of Tower Hill. By L. T. Meadb. 
 
 12ino, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 "This is one of the prettiest books for children published, as pretty 
 as a pond-lily, and quite as fragrant. Nothing could be imagined more 
 attractive to young people than such a combination of fresh pages and 
 fair pictures; and while children will rejoice over it — ^whlch is much 
 better than crying for it — ^it is a book that can be read with pleasure 
 even by older boys and girls." — Boston Advertiser. 
 
 For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the 
 publisher, A. L. BUBI, 52-58 Duane Street, New Votb, 
 
28 A. L. buet's books fob young people. 
 BOOKS FOR GIRLS. 
 
 Eosy. By Mes. Moleswoeth. 12nio, cloth, illustrated, 
 
 price 75 cents. 
 
 Mrs. Moleswortb, considering the qunllty and quantity of her labors, 
 3s the best story-teller for children Bngland has yet known. 
 
 **Thi8 Is a Tery pretty story. The writer knows children, and theil 
 ways well. The lUustrat1<'ns are exceedingly well drawn." — Spectator. 
 
 Esther : A Book for Girls. By Eosa N. Caeet. 12mo, 
 
 doth, illustrated, price $'..00. 
 
 "She inspires her readers simply by bringing them In contact with the 
 characters, who are in themselves inspiring. Her simple stories are woves 
 In order to give her an opportunity to describe her characters by their owr 
 conduct in seasons of trial." — Ohioago Times. 
 
 Sweet Content. By Mes. Moleswoeth. 12mo, cloth, 
 
 illustrated, price 76 cents. 
 
 "It seems to me not at all easier to draw a lifelike child than to draw 
 a lifelike man or woman; Shakespeare and Webster were the only two 
 men of their age who could do It with perfect delicacy and success. 
 Our own age is more fortunate, on this single score at least, having a 
 larger and far nobler proportion of female writers; among whom, since 
 the death of George Eliot, there is none left whose touch is so exquisite 
 and masterly, whose love is so thoroughly according to knowledge, whose 
 bright and sweet invention is so fruitful, so truthful, or so delightful as 
 Mrs. Molesworth's." — ^A, C. Swinbourne. 
 
 Honor Bright ; or. The Four-Leaved Shamrock. By the 
 
 author of " Miss Toosey's Mission." 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price Jl.OO. 
 "It requires a special talent to describe the sayings and doings of 
 children, and the author of 'Honor Bright,* 'One of a Covey,* possesses that 
 talent in no small degree. A cheery, sensible, and healthy tale." — Th* 
 Times, 
 
 The Cuckoo Clock. By Mes. Moleswoeth. 13mo, 
 
 cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 "A beautifid little story. It wlU be read with delight by every child 
 Into whose hands it is placed. . . . The author deserves all the praise 
 that has been, is, and will be bestowed on 'The Cuckoo Clock.* Children's 
 stories are Dlentiful, but on^ like this Is not to be met with every day.**-.- 
 FbU UaU eazette. 
 
 The Adventures of a Brownie. As Told to my Child. 
 
 By Miss Mulock. 13mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 "The author of this delightful little book leaves it in doubt all through 
 Whether there actually is such a creature in existence as a Brownie, but 
 ■lie makes as hope that there might be.** — CMoago Standard. 
 
 Only a Girl: A Tale of Brittany. From the French 
 
 by C. A. JoNXS. ISmo, cloth. Illustrated, price StOO. 
 
 "We can thoroughly recommend this brightly written and homel; nai' 
 •attve.** — Saturday Beview. 
 
 little Eosebudj or. Things Will Take a Turn. By 
 
 Bkatbicb Habradek. lamo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 "A moat delightful little book. . . . Miss Harraden Is so bright, so 
 healthy, and so natural withal that the book ought, as a matter of duty, 
 te be add ed to every girl's library in the land." — Boston Transcript. 
 
 For sate by aU booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by th9 
 jMldiabsr. A. I. Birax. SS-6g Oiwia Stieet. Haw ZoA. 
 
A. L. bust's books FOB YOUNG PEOPLE. 29 
 
 BOOKS FOR GIRLS. 
 
 Girl Neighbors; or, The Old Fashion and the New. By 
 
 Sarah Tytleb. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 •'One of the most effective and quietly humorous of MIbs Tytler's stortea. 
 *01rl Neighbors* is a pleasant comedy, not so much of errors as of preju- 
 dices got rid of, very healthy, very agreeable, and very well written.''— 
 Speotator. 
 
 The Little Lame Prince and His Traveling Cloak. By 
 
 Miss Mdlock. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 "No sweeter — that is the proper word — Christmas story for the littl* 
 folks could easily be found, and it is as delightful for older readers as 
 well. There is a moral to It which the reader can find oat for himself, it 
 he chooses to think."— Cleveland Herald. 
 
 little Miss Joy. By Emma Maeshail. 13mo, cloth, 
 
 illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 "A very pleasant and Instructive story, told by a very charming writer 
 In such an attractive way as to win favor among its young readers. Th» 
 Illustrations add to the beauty of the book." — Tmoa Herald. 
 
 The House that Grew. A Girl's Story. By Mbs. Moles- 
 worth. 13ino, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 "This is a very pretty story of English life. Mrs. Molesworth Is one 
 
 of the most popular and charming of English story-writers for children. 
 
 Her child characters are true to life, always natural and attractive^ 
 
 and her stories are wholesome and interesting.'' — Indianapolis Journal. 
 
 The House of Surprises. By L. T. Meade. 12mo, 
 
 cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 "A charming tale of charming children, who are naughty enough to be 
 Interesting, and natural enough to be lovable; and very prettily their story 
 Is told. The quaintest yet most natural stories of child life. Simply 
 delightful." — ^vanity Fair. 
 
 The Jolly Ten: and their Tear of Stories. By Agnes 
 
 Carr Saoe. 12mo, cloth, Uliutrated, price 75 oenta 
 
 The story of a band of cousins who were accustomed to meet at the 
 "Pinery," with "Aunt Roiy." At her fireside they play merry games, 
 have suppers flavored with Innocent fun, and listen to stories — each with 
 Its lesson calculated to make the ten not less jolly, but quickly re- 
 ■pensive to the calls of duty and to the needs of others. 
 
 little Hiss Dorothy. The Wonderful Adventures of 
 
 Two Little People. By Martha James. 13mo, doth, illustrated, price 76c. 
 
 "This is a charming little Juvenile story from the pen of Mrs. James, 
 
 detailing the various adventures of a couple of young children. Their 
 
 many adventures are told In a charming manner, and the book will 
 
 please young girls and boys." — Hontreal Star. 
 
 Pen's Venture. A Story for Girls. By Elvihton 
 
 Wrioht. ISmo, cloth, Illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 Something Pen saw in the condition of the cash girls in a certain store 
 gave her a thought; the thought became a plan; the plan became a ven- 
 ture — Fen's venture. It is amusing, touching, and Instructive to read about 
 
 For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the 
 publisher. A, !>• BVST, 5S-6S Duaoe 8ti««t, Nvw Tnk. 
 
30 A. L. BUKT^S BOOKS FOB YOUNG PEOPLE. 
 
 FAIRY BOOKS. 
 
 The Blue Fairy Book. Edited by Andeew Lang. Pro- 
 
 fusely illustrated, 12mo, cloth, price $1.00. 
 
 "Tbe tales are almply dellghttal. No amonnt of description can do 
 them justice. The only way is to read the book through Irom cover to 
 corer." — JBook Beview. 
 
 The Green Fairy Book. Edited by Akdhew Lang. 
 
 Profusely illustrated, 12mo, cloth, price $1.00. 
 
 "The most delightful book of fairy tales, taking form and contents to- 
 gether, ever presented to children." — ^E. S. Hartland, in I'olk-Lne, 
 
 The Yellow Fairy Book. Edited by Andeew Lano. 
 
 Profusely illustrated, ISmo, cloth, price $1.00. 
 
 "As a collection of fairy tales to delight children of all ages, it ranks 
 second to none," — Bally Graphic. 
 
 The Red Fairy Book. Edited by Andeew Lang. Pro- 
 fusely illustrated, 12mo, cloth, price Sl.CO. 
 "A gift-book that will charm any child, and all older folk, who have 
 
 been fortunate enough to retain their taste for the old nursery stories." — 
 
 Iiiterary World. 
 
 Celtic Fairy Tales. Edited by Joseph Jacobs. 12mo, 
 
 cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "A stock of delightful little narratives gathered chiefly from the Geltlc- 
 speaklng peasants of Ireland. A perfectly lovely book. And oh! the 
 wonderful ■ pictures inside. Get this book If you can; It Is capital, all 
 through." — ^Fall Hall Budget. 
 
 English Fairy Tales. Edited by Joseph Jacobs. 12mo, 
 
 cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "The tales are simply delightful. No amount of description can do 
 them justice. The only way is to read the book through from cover to 
 cover. The book is intended to correspond to 'Grimm's Fairy Tales,' 
 and it must be allowed that its pages fairly rival in interest those of 
 that well-known repository of folk-lore." — Morning Herald. 
 
 Indian Fairy Tales. Edited by Joseph Jacobs. 13mo, 
 
 cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "Mr. Jacobs brings home to us in a clear and Intelligible manner tbe 
 enormous influence which 'Indian Fairy Tales' have had upon European 
 literature of tbe kind. The present combination will be welcomed not 
 alone by the little ones for whom it is specially combined, but also by 
 children of larger growth and added years." — Daily Telegraph, 
 
 Household Fairy Tales. By the Beothees Gkimm. 
 
 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "As a collection of fairy tales to delight children of all ages this 
 work ranks second to none." — Z>aily Graphic. 
 
 Fairy Tales and Stories. By Hans Cheistian Andee- 
 
 SBV. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "If I were asked to select a child's library I should name these three 
 volumes, 'English,' 'Celtic,' and 'Indian Fairy Tales,' with Grimm and 
 Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales." — Independent. 
 
 Tor sale by all booksellers, or sent postnaid on receipt of price by the 
 pobllsher. A, L. BUST, 61-68 Ihiane Strest, New Terk, 
 
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 PopBlar Fairy Tales. By the Bbothers Gbikm. 12mo, 
 
 olotti, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "From first to last, almost wltbODt exception, these stories are delight- 
 fnl." — Atheaaum. 
 
 leslaudie Fairy Tales. By A. W. Hat.t,. ISmo, cloth, 
 
 illustrated, price tl.OO. 
 
 "The most dellEbtfnl book of fall? tales, taking form and eontenta ts- 
 Sethar, ever presented to children. The whole collection is dramatic aad 
 hnmorouB. A more desirable child's 'loook has not been seen for maaj a 
 day."— Daily Kews. 
 
 Fairy Tales From the Far North. (Norwegian.) By 
 
 F. C. AsBJOBNSEH. 12nio, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 **If we were asked what present would make a child happiest at Christ- ' 
 mastide we think we could with a clear conscience point to Mr. Jaoobfl* 
 book. It is a dainty and an interesting Tolnme." — Kotes and Queries. 
 
 Cossack Fairy Tales. By K. Nisbbt Bain. ISmo, 
 
 cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "A really valuable and curious selection which will be welcomed by 
 readers of all ages. . . . The illustrations by Ur. Batten are often 
 clever and irresistibly humorous. A delight alike to the young people 
 and their elders."— Globe. 
 
 The Golden Fairy Book. By Vaeious Authors. 12mo, 
 
 cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "The most delightful book of its kind that has come In our way tor 
 many a day. It is brimful of pretty stories. Retold in a tmly deigbtfol 
 manner. ' ' — Graphic. 
 
 The Silver Fairy Book. By Vabious Authors. 12mo, 
 
 cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. 
 
 "The book is intended to correspond to 'Grimm's Fairy Tales,' and it 
 must be allowed that its pages fairly rival in Interest those of the well- 
 known repository of folk-lore. It Is a most delightful volume of fairy 
 tales. ' '-Courier. 
 
 The Brownies, and Other Stories. By Juliana Horatia 
 
 BwiNO. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 "Like all the books she has written this one is very charming, and 
 is wortti more in the bands of a child than a score of other stories of a 
 more sensational character." — Christian at Work. 
 
 The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony in Eight Fits. 
 
 By Lewis Caiiroll, author of "Alice in Wonderland." ..imo, cloth, illus- 
 trated, price 75 cents. 
 "This glorious piece of nonsense. . . . Everybody oaght to read It 
 
 — nearly everybody will — and all who deserve the treat will scream with 
 
 laughter." — Graphic. 
 
 lob lie-By-the-fire, and Other Tales. By Jullina 
 
 HbsATio EwiHO. 13mo, doth, illustrated, price 75 cents. 
 
 "Mrs. Ewing has written as good a story as her 'Brownies,' and that 
 la saying a great deal. 'Lob Lle-by-the-flre' has humor and pathos, and 
 teaches whaf is right without making children think they arc readlug a 
 sermon."— Saturday Eeview. _^^______^_——.^— ——.-.— 
 
 For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price tV tin 
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