Excerpt from The Hidden Force: A Story of Modern Java
This novel was written in the author"s middle period, about twenty years ago. He tells me that, since then, life in the Dutch East Indies has undergone certain modifications, but none of very great importance. The habit among Dutch ladies of wearing native dress during the day has nearly died out. The relations between the ruling and the subject race are almost unchanged since the date of the story (1900).
I have retained the spelling of the Malay words as it stands in the original, with the exception that I have transliterated the Dutch phonetic oe into its English equivalent, u or oo. The other vowels are pronounced in the continental fashion.
To each of these terms I have appended a foot-note when it first occurs; and a full glossary of all the native words and phrases will be found at the end of the volume.
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