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In 02, eight early British expats were sold in the, what of the first trip of the East India Company as Banten Lama is known now. They were told to make money and promised that yes, someone would soon return to pick them up.
At the time, called the second trip to the port, at that time the strongest in Southeast Asia, only two survived. Six had died, one of the remaining pair, Edmund Scott, a nervous wreck to leave while following a tortuous three years where he was too scared his Woodworking. If it does not fight with drunken Dutch sailors was, it was the blood clots cries headhunters outside his hut or try the screams of fire as unscrupulous traders to draw his poor track record.
While Scott was more than happy to return home with the second trip his co-survivors, Gabriel Towerson, spent the better part of two decades in the Indonesian islands.
Back in the 16 th and 17 th century, most of the congestion now we of course would have been unthinkable. Most of what we know as Jakarta was still jungle and how the early inhabitants south of the mouth of the Ciliwung it was obvious that they soon started to walk in contact with animals. Big, wild animals to be destroyed made wild by their habitat.
In 1659, for example, 14 loggers were killed by tigers in Ancol. They also took some slaves but history has not bothered to tell us how many. In 1692 three young Europeans had in Batavia not long before they were chased by a crocodile on a canal. Their only escape was built to climb the gallows to commit suicide, so they do not save.
late the government the payment of a premium on any tigers, panthers and crocodiles killed in the 17 th century in and around Batavia.
in 1811 was the British Java. At that time the Dutch cozying on the French and in those days the British never needed much of an apology over the canal a pop at their eternal enemies to have.
After mobbing up off Meleka the British, with some prominent Stamford Raffles past a Singapore, which was pretty deserted and headed eastward, sailed south, to the south of Pontianak in Borneo rendezvous. They beat Cilincing in August and began their conquest.
Raffles was made governor, but as a living and working in Batavia he voted in Bogor to stay. He would regularly commute to the city enough although with frequent changes of horses he reckon on getting Harmony in Bogor in about four hours.
Quite a lot has happened during his brief time in Java. He climbed Gunung Gede and made he could see both the south and north coast of Java. He heard of a volcanic eruption thousands of miles to the east and sent a team to investigate what was known as the later Tambora explosion. And he to be heard by some temple ruins discovered in the middle of the island and sent another team to learn more about.
In 1828, a new statue erected in what we now know as banteng Lagangan. The only column provided a lion on the top and the space around it was around 1815 called against the British and Prussians Waterloo Square in memory of Napoleon's famous defeat in Belgium. A similar monument was erected in the vicinity of the current scene of the battle, but the tropical version was destroyed during the Japanese interregnum.
were in 1883 still a Dutch middle-aged family for Sunday lunch ready one morning when suddenly a plate fell off the table and broke into many pieces on the floor. At that time her husband was reading the Sunday paper. Then windows and doors started rattling and there was a low rumble.
The man he chose needed to find out what was going on. It was his job, after all, each to be explained by the normal activity; he was the Director of the magnetic and Meteorological Observatory. He went to his office and saw all his instruments and dials, to do things that are meant to happen something big. He did not know it yet, but he was watching Krakatau itself blown apart
sources and useful reading
Simon Winchester -. Krakatau The Day The World Exploded
Giles Milton - Nathaniel's Nutmeg
William Thorn - Conquest of Java
John Keay - The Honourable Company
A Heuken - Historic Sites of Jakarta
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