Art Treasures of Kinloch Castle: KRAKATAU VOLCANO, NEW CALEDONIA, BATAVIA, SINGAPORE 1892 - 1895 ALBUM XV Images 1

KRAKATAU VOLCANO,
NEW CALEDONIA, BATAVIA, SINGAPORE

1892 - 1895 WORLD TOUR OF GEORGE BULLOUGH

Written and illustrated from first hand research by George W. Randall

co-founder in July 1996 and former

Vice Chairman Kinloch Castle Friends' Association

The 20 Photograph Albums containing about 600 images collected during

Bullough’s Grand World Tour.
Note: There are two labelled XIV and no XVIII. The somewhat thicker second XIV
is labelled "Japan" and contains pictures of that country mostly in colour.

BACKGROUND INTRODUCTION:

Please read notes at end of this Post - THANK YOU!

ALBUM XV * The first fifteen of 31 photographs * BLOG 81

ALBUM XV * IMAGE 8 * FULL SIZE 9½ x 7½ inches.

A description and detailed images from this photograph are included at the end of this Blog.

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ALBUM XV * IMAGE 3 * SIZE 8 x 6 inches.
Noumea.

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From the Log of Captain Simpson master of the 177 ft. long SS Norham Castle.

The tsunami which followed created waves more than 100 feet high, sweeping away 160 coastal towns and villages and killing a recorded 36,417 people, estimates put the figure over 120,000. Blast waves were so intense they damaged walls and broke windows one hundred miles from the eruption site.
Numerous vessels in the area reported huge rafts of floating pumice ten feet
thick, some crossing the Indian Ocean over the succeeding months.

The decks of ships 160 miles away were still being covered with volcanic dust three days after cessation of activity, whilst in the immediate area of the dust

cloud the explosion created total darkness for three days, and even fifty
miles away darkness lasted more than twenty-four hours.

Depending on wind direction ash was reported falling on Singapore 520 miles to the north and the Cocos Islands over 700 miles south-west. Plant and animal life too was devastated, taking almost five years to before showing the first signs of recovering.

Much more information can be found on the internet.

Recommended site with videos: Ronny Quireyns/VolcanoDiscovery

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ALBUM XV * IMAGE 5 * SIZE 9½ x 7½ inches.
Tanjong Priok - Port of Batavia.
PHOTOGRAPHEEN • VAN • NED • INDIE • BATAVIA - WOODBURY AND PAGE

The album photograph shows SS Swaerdecroon at Tanjong Priok, the port of Batavia, (North Jakarta), today the busiest and most modern Indonesian seaport.

The 670 grt. SS Swaerdecroon was built by Int. Scheepsbouw Mij. De Maas, Slikkerveer, Rotterdam, Holland in 1891 as a passenger/cargo ship and sold in 1906

to I. Amagasaki Kisenbu Gomei Kaisha, Osaka, Japan and renamed Kimigayo Maru.

Steel built Swaerdecroon was 185 feet in length with a breadth of 26½ feet

and depth of almost 17½ feet. Single screw developing 550 horse power

from a 3-cylinder triple expansion engine.

On the 23^rdof May 1945 the ship struck a mine laid by a B-29 aircraft of the USAF

and sank west of the island of Hime Jima, Japan.

ALBUM XV   *   IMAGE 5 * DETAIL FROM FULL SIZE 9½ x 7½ inches.
Tanjong Priok - Port of Batavia.

PHOTOGRAPHEEN • VAN • NED • INDIE • BATAVIA - WOODBURY AND PAGE

A fine model of SS Swaerdecroon

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HOTEL DES INDES - BATAVIA

ALBUM XV * IMAGE 7 * SIZE 9½ x 7½ inches

PHOTOGRAPHEEN • VAN • NED • INDIE • BATAVIA - WOODBURY AND PAGE

Until it was demolished in 1971 to make way for a shopping mall, the Hotel des Indes

was amongst the oldest and most celebrated hotels in Asia offering accommodation to
innumerable famous patrons for over one hundred and forty years.

Formerly named Hotel de Provence by its French owner, later Hotel Rotterdam and

Hotel Duta Indonesia, it was at the suggestion of Dutch author Eduard Douwes Dekker

in 1856 that it was finally named the “much more chic-sounding” Hotel des Indes.

It was another Dutch author patron, novelist and poet, Louis Marie-Anne Couperus,*

(1863-1923), who commissioned Walter Woodbury and James Page to photograph the hotel
for an advertisement campaign.

(* Note: the date 1870 is attributed to this photograph
of the hotel on some websites.

If Couperus did indeed commission the firm of
Woodbury and Page,

he being only seven years old in that year,
then a date late 1880’s would seem more realistic.)

HOTEL DES INDES - BATAVIA

ALBUM XV * IMAGE 7 * DETAIL FROM FULL SIZE 9½ x 7½ inches

PHOTOGRAPHEEN • VAN • NED • INDIE • BATAVIA - WOODBURY AND PAGE

The hotel was originally built in 1828 by the Dutch East Indies Government as a boarding

school for girls, however “it was soon abandoned due to lack of European females ... ...
its teachers leaving to get married.”

Luggage label.

HOTEL DES INDES - BATAVIA

ALBUM XV * IMAGE 7 * DETAIL FROM FULL SIZE 9½ x 7½ inches

PHOTOGRAPHEEN • VAN • NED • INDIE • BATAVIA - WOODBURY AND PAGE

A near contemporary visitor to the hotel described it as being
"located in the new city called Werengen. On entering the enclosure which surrounds the
hotel, a large banyan tree was the central object directly in front of the hotel proper,
situated nearly in the centre of the square.
On three sides of the square are arranged a continuous series of one story suite of rooms opening
in front on a wide veranda, shut off from the adjacent suite by screens of stained glass and
shaded by glass and awnings. This was the salon of the suite, furnished with rugs, chairs,
centre table and writing-desk. Here all waking hours are supposed to be passed.
The larger homes of the residents are similarly arranged; such an exterior forms the large
drawing- room, often beautifully furnished."*

* Travels in the Far East by Ellen M. H. Peck

"Isles of the East - An Illustrated Guide"

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ARTESIAN WELL - BATAVIA

ALBUM XV * IMAGE 9 * DETAIL FROM FULL SIZE 9½ x 7½ inches

PHOTOGRAPHEEN • VAN • NED • INDIE • BATAVIA - WOODBURY AND PAGE

Since demolished, the pictured Artesian Well was located in a park in the centre of Batavia,

formerly a field used as a parade ground and for military training it was

named Konisngplein by the ruling Dutch Government in 1818.

Throughout the 19^th Century pollution of Batavia’s canal system plus an inadequate

supply of safe drinking water posed a major problem.

Some canals were filled in to make streets and higher ground used for development,

particularly around Konisngplein, which by the mid-1800’s had become the most elite

location in Batavia as large houses began to dominate its borders.

Despite Batavia being located at the mouth of the largest of the areas thirteen rivers,

the Ciliwung, plus an abundance of rainfall, the residents still suffered an inadequate

supply of clean drinking water. The solution came between 1873 and 1877 with the

digging of seven artesian wells plus a number of shallow wells and reservoirs

primarily serving the European community.

By 1901 eleven artesian wells had been sunk “entirely meeting” Batavia’s drinking water needs,

each well having its own distribution network. In 1923 a thirty-four mile long pipe system was

added bringing fresh spring water to the rapidly growing city we know as Jakarta,

today its population fast approaching ten million.

Reference: Transforming Distressed Global Communities

Edited by Fritz Wagner, Riad Mahayni and Andreas G. Piller Published 2015

GOINOING JAHARI - BATAVIA

ALBUM XV * IMAGE 6 * SIZE 9½ x 7½ inches

PHOTOGRAPHEEN • VAN • NED • INDIE • BATAVIA - WOODBURY AND PAGE

Batavia was the Dutch colonial name for today’s Jakarta established in 1611 (1609 also given)

as the overseas cultural and administrative headquarters of the Dutch East India Company, headquartered in Amsterdam and founded in 1602.
Laid out along Dutch principals a series of canals used for drainage and transportation, many stone lined, soon dissected the city which was to remain under Dutch control for over three centuries.

A late 19^th Century description describes the town as being situated at the head of a

capacious bay stretching inland over a swampy plain on both sides of the River Jacatra,

the tree fringed canals and streets - many of the latter having a breadth of 30 to 60 metres -

were laid out in a regular and straight grid pattern
and contained many green and pleasant parks.

GOINOING JAHARI - BATAVIA

ALBUM XV * IMAGE 6 * DETAIL FROM FULL SIZE 9½ x 7½ inches

PHOTOGRAPHEEN • VAN • NED • INDIE • BATAVIA - WOODBURY AND PAGE

In Holland, much of which lies below sea level, canals serve principally to drain the land.
However, historic Batavia was growing on a low, flat, swampy alluvial plain through which thirteen rivers slowly flowed to the sea. Unlike canals in Holland which “regularly flush” their water, Batavia’s canals barely flowed due to irregular water flow from inland.
The canals became shallow, stagnant and, as they were used for the disposal sewage,
“smelled terrible” posing a severe risk of disease.

Despite this, with minor modifications, the canals were retained throughout Dutch colonial

rule which ended with independence for Indonesia on the 17^th August 1945,

since when they have been “replaced with more successful and healthier alternatives.”

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HOTEL DU CHEMIN DE FER - BUITENZORG

ALBUM XV * IMAGE 10 * SIZE 9½ x 7½ inches

PHOTOGRAPHEEN • VAN • NED • INDIE • BATAVIA - WOODBURY AND PAGE

LEFT: Dining Room.

Under the ownership of two Frenchmen,
Messrs. G. G. Breau and J. J. Leroux, the Hotel du Chemin de Fer opened in August 1872 its location offering stunning views of Mount Salak .

In 1920 the hotel was acquired by the State Railroad Company, Staatsspoorwegen.

In August 1925 hotel Chemin de Fer closed

HOTEL DU CHEMIN DE FER - BUITENZORG

ALBUM XV * IMAGE 10 * DETAIL FROM FULL SIZE 9½ x 7½ inches
PHOTOGRAPHEEN • VAN • NED • INDIE • BATAVIA - WOODBURY AND PAGE

Hotel du Chemin de Fer - Railway Hotel.

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KOERIPAN, NEAR BUITENZORG

ALBUM XV * IMAGE 15 * SIZE 9 x 8 inches
PHOTOGRAPHEEN • VAN • NED • INDIE • BATAVIA - WOODBURY AND PAGE

Rice terraces in Central Java along the main road from Batavia to Buitenzorg.

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PHOTOGRAPHEEN • VAN • NED • INDIE • BATAVIA - WOODBURY AND PAGE

PALACE BUITENZORG

ALBUM XV * IMAGE 12 * SIZE 9½ x 7½ inches
PHOTOGRAPHEEN • VAN • NED • INDIE • BATAVIA - WOODBURY AND PAGE

The Presidential Palace, (Istana Bogor), built in 1856 on the site of the original Buitenzorg mansion destroyed by an earthquake, is located on the north-

west side of the Botanical Gardens, and until independence in 1945 was the official residenceof the Governor Generals of the Dutch East Indies, after which it became the Presidential Palace often used by Indonesia’s first President, Kusno Sosrodihardjo, (1901-1970), leader of the Indonesian struggle for independence,

better known as President Sukarno who ruled from 1945 until 1967.

Today it is principally used as the venue for provincial and state occasions.

PALACE BUITENZORG

ALBUM XV * IMAGE 12 * DETAIL FROM FULL SIZE 9½ x 7½ inches

PHOTOGRAPHEEN • VAN • NED • INDIE • BATAVIA - WOODBURY AND PAGE

CHILD 28½ lbs. SITTING ON A VICTORIA REGINA LEAF

IN THE GARDENS BUITENZORG

ALBUM XV * IMAGE 13 * FULL SIZE 12 x 7½ inches

PHOTOGRAPHEEN • VAN • NED • INDIE • BATAVIA - WOODBURY AND PAGE

CHILD 28½ lbs. SITTING ON A VICTORIA REGINA LEAF

IN THE GARDENS BUITENZORG

ALBUM XV * IMAGE 13 * DETAIL FROM FULL SIZE 12 x 7½ inches

PHOTOGRAPHEEN • VAN • NED • INDIE • BATAVIA - WOODBURY AND PAGE

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DORIAN FRUIT - BATAVIA
ALBUM XV * IMAGE 14 * DETAIL FROM FULL SIZE 9½ x 7½ inches

Belonging to the genus, Durio, noted for its size growing to a length of twelve inches and weighing up to 7-lbs., its rind covered with prickly thorns, Dorian (durian) fruit is native to Indonesia.

Round or oblong in shape it is a seasonal fruit its colour varying from green to brown, the flesh pale yellow to red depending on the variety.

It is used in Southeast Asia to flavour a wide range of foods
from savoury dishes to sweet desserts.

The Dorian tree is an evergreen and can grow to a height of over 160 feet,
(82 -164 being the range), depending on the species.
The feathery flowers are large producing large amounts of nectar.

Bats are the principal pollinators along with giant honey bees and birds.

The taste of the fruit is variously described having a sweet fragrance to deep disgust, the latter being likened to rotten onions and raw sewage,

its lingering odour leading to the fruit being banned from some hotels,

public transport and Singapore’s subway system.

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Image 8 incorrectly identified as “Batavia Palace”.

IOLANI PALACE - KING STREET, HONOLULU, HAWAII

Album XV * Image 8 * Size 9½ x 7½ inches.

Photograph incorrectly identified as “Batavia Palace”.

IOLANI PALACE, HONOLULY, HAWAII

The Iolani Palace, translates as the “Hawk of Heaven Palace”,

io, the first Hawaiian god, said to fly to commune with the gods.

The cornerstone of the palace was laid on the 31^st of December 1879, the birthday of Queen Kapiolani, wife of King Kalakaua who commissioned construction at a cost of US$343,595,

about £70,000 at the time, and completed in 1882.

The four gated entrances open to an extensive landscaped park.

The Kauikeaouli Gate off King Street was used for state occasions, the pathway,

lined with royal palms, led to a broad staircased Corinthian columned front entrance.

The palace underwent full restoration in 1978 costing $7 million, equivalent to

US$27 million or £21,000,000 in 2019.

The Iolani Palace, translates as the “Hawk of Heaven Palace”,

io, the first Hawaiian god, said to fly to commune with the gods.

The cornerstone of the palace was laid on the 31^st of December 1879, the birthday of Queen Kapiolani, wife of King Kalakaua

who commissioned construction at a cost of US$343,595,
about £70,000 at the time, and completed in 1882.
The four gated entrances open to an extensive landscaped park.

The Kauikeaouli Gate off King Street was used for state occasions, the pathway,

lined with royal palms, led to a broad staircased Corinthian columned front entrance.

The palace underwent full restoration in 1978 costing $7 million, equivalent to
US$27 million or £21,000,000 in 2019.

The windows have 52,000 wooden shutters to admit and control the prevailing trade winds;
during restoration 28,000 were replaced primarily due to termite damage.

The copper domed Coronation Pavillion (left) was built for the coronation of King Kalakaua,
1836-1891, last king and penultimate monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii and his queen,
Queen Kapiolani, 1834-1899.
Today it is used for weekly band concerts.