Bubur Ayam at Lembang on the slopes of the Tangkuban Perahu, above Bandung, Java, Indonesia
Ach! It's all connected. Eddie Bauer (1899-1986), whose name is so prominent on the middle-lad's sweater, was born on Orcas Island in the state of Washington, USA. An outdoorsman, nearly one winter having frozen to to death on a fishing trip he decided to develop a line of sports clothing which today - as is obvious from this photo - travels the world.
Curious as to the name Orcas Island, I discovered that it is named after Don Juan Vincente de Guemes, Pacheco de Padilla, Horcasitas y Aguayo, Conde de Revillagigedo (1740-1794), a viceroy of New Spain (Mexico etc.) from 1789-1794). A reforming man of many social and governmental initiatives, he funded and sent out expeditions to open up the northern frontiers of America on the Pacific. Hence Bauer's island received it's name 'Orcas' after one of his titles. Among Don Juan's many educational projects was the establishment of a College of Mining. And that brings us back to Lembang above Bandung just under the still sulphurously burbling volcano, the Tangkuban Perahu.
The majestic views here and the volcanoes generally of Java were of the greatest interest to Franz Junghuhn (1809-1864), a German-born but Dutch explorer of Java and Sumatra (and one of the developers of the quinine plantations of Java). Interested in everything natural from minerology, mining, anthropology and botany to medicine and fauna, he was also one of the the founders of modern, secular but theistic humanism in the Netherlands. Junghuhn spent much of his time late in life in a small cottage on the very lip of the crater; he died in his house in Lembang with a view to his beloved mountains, and he is buried just inside the town in a pretty little garden square where his stele is surrounded by varieties of the cinchona (quinine shrub).
A fascination for the Tangkuban Perahu stimulated not a few colonial lads to take up the field of mine engineering, studying first at Utrecht or Delft in the homeland, and then returning to the Java of their youth to work in colonial economy and development.
And - as an elderly former colonial once said to me - 'I still recall and long for the taste of Bubur Ayam - Chicken Porridge - as we bought it from the little carts in the streets of Bandung!' There's one on the left in this picture. I doubt that Eddie Bauer had any notion of such a thing...
Just look at the smiles on those faces!
Bubur Ayam at Lembang on the slopes of the Tangkuban Perahu, above Bandung, Java, Indonesia
Ach! It's all connected. Eddie Bauer (1899-1986), whose name is so prominent on the middle-lad's sweater, was born on Orcas Island in the state of Washington, USA. An outdoorsman, nearly one winter having frozen to to death on a fishing trip he decided to develop a line of sports clothing which today - as is obvious from this photo - travels the world.
Curious as to the name Orcas Island, I discovered that it is named after Don Juan Vincente de Guemes, Pacheco de Padilla, Horcasitas y Aguayo, Conde de Revillagigedo (1740-1794), a viceroy of New Spain (Mexico etc.) from 1789-1794). A reforming man of many social and governmental initiatives, he funded and sent out expeditions to open up the northern frontiers of America on the Pacific. Hence Bauer's island received it's name 'Orcas' after one of his titles. Among Don Juan's many educational projects was the establishment of a College of Mining. And that brings us back to Lembang above Bandung just under the still sulphurously burbling volcano, the Tangkuban Perahu.
The majestic views here and the volcanoes generally of Java were of the greatest interest to Franz Junghuhn (1809-1864), a German-born but Dutch explorer of Java and Sumatra (and one of the developers of the quinine plantations of Java). Interested in everything natural from minerology, mining, anthropology and botany to medicine and fauna, he was also one of the the founders of modern, secular but theistic humanism in the Netherlands. Junghuhn spent much of his time late in life in a small cottage on the very lip of the crater; he died in his house in Lembang with a view to his beloved mountains, and he is buried just inside the town in a pretty little garden square where his stele is surrounded by varieties of the cinchona (quinine shrub).
A fascination for the Tangkuban Perahu stimulated not a few colonial lads to take up the field of mine engineering, studying first at Utrecht or Delft in the homeland, and then returning to the Java of their youth to work in colonial economy and development.
And - as an elderly former colonial once said to me - 'I still recall and long for the taste of Bubur Ayam - Chicken Porridge - as we bought it from the little carts in the streets of Bandung!' There's one on the left in this picture. I doubt that Eddie Bauer had any notion of such a thing...
Just look at the smiles on those faces!