Gigantic tidal waves swept the sundanese shores, destroying the adjacent villages, 36,000 people being either washed away or buried under the boiling rain of mud, fire, and ashes.
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings
He made himself of service through the translation of a pamphlet on the cultivation of water crops from Dutch into Javanese and sundanese.
"Letters of a Javanese Princess"
Raden Adjeng Kartini Commentator: Louis Couperus
Another Regent's daughter has been here; she is a sundanese girl; she does not speak a word of Javanese, but she was brought up with Europeans, so we talked in Dutch.
"Letters of a Javanese Princess"
Raden Adjeng Kartini Commentator: Louis Couperus