Photo courtesy of Bartele Gallery
In 02, eight British expatriates in the beginning were deposited in what is now known under the name of Banten Lama by the first trip of the East India Company. They were told to make money and promised that yes, someone was going to come back soon to pick them up.
When the second trip called into port, the busiest time in Southeast Asia, only two survived. Six were killed while one of the remaining pair, Edmund Scott, was a nervous wreck after three tortuous years he had been too afraid to leave his wooden compound. If she was not fighting with drunken Dutch sailors there were curdling cries of blood outside headhunters his cabin fire or screams as unscrupulous traders tried to take his meager stock.
While Scott was more than happy to return home with the second trip of his co-survivor, Gabriel Towerson, spent the better part of two decades in the Indonesian islands.
Back in the 16 e and 17 e century, most of the traffic jams, we now take for granted would have been unimaginable. Most of what we know as Jakarta was still jungle and the first residents began to move south of the mouth of the Ciliwung it was obvious that they would soon come into contact with animals. Wild animals do wild Big destroyed their habitat.
In 1659, for example, 14 loggers were killed by tigers in Ancol. They also took slaves, but the story did not bother to tell us how. In 1692, three young Europeans were not in Batavia long before they were chased by a crocodile along a canal. Their only solution was to mount the brackets to take lives, not save them.
Late 17 e century, the government paid a bounty on all tigers, panthers and crocodiles killed in and around Batavia.
in 1811, the British invaded Java. At that time, the Dutch have been cozying up to the French and in those days the British never need much of an excuse to have a pop their eternal enemies through the channel.
After mobbing off Meleka the British, with some prominent Stamford Raffles, sailed south, a Singapore which was almost deserted and headed east to visit more south of Pontianak in Borneo past. They hit Cilincing in August and began their conquest.
Raffles was made governor, but rather than live and work in Batavia he chose to stay in Bogor. It commute into town fairly regularly and if the frequent change of horses that he could count on getting Harmony Bogor in about four hours.
Not wrong during his short time in Java. He climbed Gunung Gede and thought he saw 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 later known as Tambora explosion. And he also heard of some temple ruins being discovered in the middle of the island and sent another team to learn more.
In 1828, a new statue was erected in what we now know as banteng Lagangan. The only column featured a lion on top and place around it was called Waterloo Square in memory of the famous Napoleon's defeat in Belgium in 1815 against the British and the Prussians. A similar monument was also erected near the actual scene of the battle, but the tropical version was destroyed during the Japanese interregnum.
In 1883, a middle-aged Dutch family were preparing for Sunday lunch one morning when suddenly a plate fell on the table and broken into several pieces on the floor. When her husband was reading the Sunday paper. Then the windows and doors started rattling and there was a low rumble.
The husband decided he needed to know what was happening. It was his job after all explain everything on the normal activity; he was the director of the Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory. he walked to his office and saw all the instruments and dials that do things that meant something big was happening. He did not know yet, but he looked Krakatau to blow out
Sources and useful reading
Simon Winchester -. Krakatau The Day The World [1945004éclatée]
Giles Milton - Nutmeg Nathaniel
William Thorn - The conquest of Java
John Keay - The Honourable Company
A Heuken - historic Sites of Jakarta
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