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Title: Java, Sumatra and the other islands of the Dutch East Indies
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Cabaton, Antoine, b. 1863 Miall, Bernard, 1876-
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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, the dog, and the cat. The birds of Java, many of which are clad in the mostbrilliant plumage, do not number more than 270 species,of which forty are peculiar to the island. Ducks, and thewild cock, peacocks, pigeons, and pheasants abound, notto speak of the kingfishers, parakeets, ant-eaters, andbirds of paradise. The peacock is the object of a certainamount of aversion, because the natives believe that atroop of peacocks reveals the approach of the tiger,whom they follow in his hunting.^ The dugong and the cachalot are often seen along thecoast; crocodiles also are common, and the rich vegeta-tion of Java conceals a great variety of snakes, many ofwhich are far more dangerous to man than the dreadedtiger. The aquatic fauna, whether marine or otherwise, isextremely rich, and for the native is an important sourceof food and prosperity, as we shall see when we come tostudy the natives life. It is supposed by the Javanese that the peacock eats theintestinal worms of the tigers victims.
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CHAPTER IV ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS OF JAVA I. The seventeen Residencies.—The western Residencies : Bantam,Batavia, Cheribon, the Preangers.—II. The central Residencies :Pekalongan, Samarang, Banjumas, Kedu.—III. Kedu and Boro-Budur.—IV. The Vorstenlanden, or PrincipaUties, Surakarta andDjokjakarta.—V. Rembang, Madiun.—VI. The Residencies ofthe East: Surabaja, Kediri, Pasuruan, Besuki, and Madura. I. The immense area of Java and Madura was, until 1900,divided into twenty-two Residencies or Provinces, whichhave since been reduced to seventeen; partly as ameasure of centralisation, but still more as a matter ofadministrative economy. Two of these, in the centre ofJava, have retained an apparent independence; oneunder a Susuhunan,^ and the other under a Sultan.These are known as the Vorstenlanden^ or Principalities :Surakarta and Djokjakarta. The first Residency in Java, starting from the westernextremity of the island, is that of Bantam ; which,after having been the most flo

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