The Javanese

Java, the Garden of the East

The Javanese are the finest flower of the Malay race - a people possessed of a civilization, arts, and literature in that golden period before the Mohammedan and European conquests. They have gentle voices, gentle manners, fine and expressive features, and are the one people of Asia beside the Japanese who have real charm and attraction for the alien. They are a little people and one feels the same indulgent, protective sense as toward the Japanese.

From: Java, The Garden of the East", by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (pronounced SID-more) (1856–1928) was an American writer, photographer and geographer, who became the first female board member of the National Geographic Society.