 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Ethnology - 1869 - 694 pages
...older stratified rocks ; but still essentially Java is volcanic ; and that noble and fertile island — the very garden of the East, and perhaps upon the whole the richest, the best cultivated, and the best governed tropical island in the world — owes its very existence... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Malay Archipelago - 1880 - 586 pages
...older stratified rocks ; but still essentially Java is volcanic, and that noble and fertile island — the very garden of the East, and perhaps, upon the whole, the richest, the best cultivated, and the best governed tropical island in the world — owes its very existence... | |
 | Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore - Java (Indonesia) - 1907 - 368 pages
...statements given on that side, and he summed up his observations in the declaration that Java was " the very garden of the East, and perhaps, upon the whole, the richest, best-cultivated, and the best-governed island in the world." The competition of French beet-sugar,... | |
 | Elizabeth Harper Brooks - Java (Indonesia) - 1911 - 242 pages
...times while the culture system was at its height, in his observations makes this declaration: 'Java is the very garden of the East, and perhaps, upon the whole, the richest, best-cultivated, and the best-governed island in the world.' " It is indeed hard to reach an estimate... | |
 | Algie Martin Simons, Charles H. Kerr - American periodicals - 1916 - 770 pages
...travel." And Alfred Russell Wallace, who visited Java many times between 1854 and 1862, said it was "the very garden of the east, and perhaps, upon the...whole, the richest, best cultivated, and best governed island in the world." Most of the ships plying to and from Java are owned by the Dutch, and I met only... | |
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the very garden of the East, and perhaps, upon the whole, the richest, the best cultivated, and the best governed tropical island in the world," as Wallace described it eighty years ago. 