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Usage examples of batavia.

Wavell had arrived in Batavia on January 10, and established his headquarters near Bandoeng, the centre of the Dutch Army Command.

His Excellency was good enough to point that out to me yesterday - perhaps he showed you the same map- - and I will make the same reply to you as I did to him: as the prevailing winds lie at this season, it is quicker to go back to Batavia by the False Natunas than by the Banka Strait.

One day he sent his sons out to Batavia, a passage from Calicut, and they were dead within a week, from the ague.

That was the booty from the Heerlycke Nacht, mostly silver plate and a hundred thousand guilders in coin that had been intended for payment of the Dutch garrison in Batavia.

Batavia, he had only escaped the gallows by flight--I had my own thoughts as to the similarity between his destiny and mine, but I did not reveal them.

After a four-day round trip to Evanston, the tank returned to the Batavia ruins and fired a canister of tapes and photos through the I-Screen.

When he and I first made our acquaintance together, we did discourse often in the course of that long voyage here from Batavia of how our life might be in my land of England but I would say this day that it is the first time that I may allow myself to feel any certainty of happiness.

They met, as I understand it, on his ship that brought her back from Batavia where she had been stranded by misadventure.

There I found, perhaps by providence, Dahl and his ship, newly come to Batavia for the first time, loaded with cargo and now preparing to sail, I asked him for help, showed him the shine of my money and bought a passage back.

I told him an untruth because I had to, saying I had been very ill in Batavia, prostrated by a fever for weeks almost from the day of my arrival and therefore had no knowledge of the country worth speaking of.

He remembered how he had despised one of his brother officers in Batavia who, over the matter of a woman, had placed the muzzle of a loaded pistol in his mouth and blown away the back of his skull.

It was the only remedy against the malaria, a disease that mariners encountered in every known area of the oceans, from the jungles of Batavia and Further India to the canals of Venice, the swamps of Virginia and the Caribbean in the New World.

They were cemetery experts from Batavia way, and the job was to cost sixteen hundred dollars.

He had entered the Dutch East India Company's service, but having been concerned in a revolt at Batavia, he had only escaped the gallows by flight--I had my own thoughts as to the similarity between his destiny and mine, but I did not reveal them.

Inside, each tucked into its own sandbagged nook, six wireless sets were operating, their operators working in R/T or W/T to ALFSEA in Singapore, to Batavia, or to detachments in places like Palembang and Padang.