Identifier: javaherneighbour00walc (find matches)
Title: Java and her neighbours; a traveller's notes in Java Celebes, the Moluccas and Sumatra
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Walcott, Arthur Stuart, 1869-1923
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Publisher: New York Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Photo by Carr M. Thomas UNLOADIXG CATTLE, SUMATRAN COAST
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Photo by Carr M. Thomas SUMATRAN RAILWAY TRAIN AT KWALA LANGSA
NORTH SUMATRA PORTS 337
The last two stops of the steamer were productive of even less satisfactory results than that at Sigli. At Lho Seumawe, in an atmosphere of malaria and fever, there is a small settlement of Euro-peans and a large colony of Chinese, but not a single attractive feature, natural or artificial. Westopped for a day to discharge cargo and to take on a consignment of three large bags of peanuts and a Chinese passenger. At Kwala Langsathere was not even a settlement to be seen, only a toy station of the narrow-gauge railway, a cattlepen, and a half dozen filthy, rotting, frame shan-ties built over pools of fetid slime and inhabited by sallow, pock-marked Chinese. The approach to Kwala Langsa is through a deep bay, and a number of thickly wooded islands add a redeeming touch of beauty to the otherwise depressing monotony of mangrove swamps and dirty water. The town, of which the railway station and a wharf form the port,

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