Sourabaya

It was the night before arriving in Sourabaya when one of those attempts at confidential communication succeeded.

Almayer's Folly 2006

On his return thence to Sourabaya in Java, he was to have gone to the entirely unknown Sumba or Sandal-wood Island.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

The Dutch mail steamer brought me from Ternate to Sourabaya, the chief town and port in the eastern part of Java, and after a fortnight spent in packing up and sending off my last collections,

The Malay Archipelago 2004

I returned to Sourabaya by water, in a roomy boat which brought myself, servants, and baggage at one-fifth the expense it had cost me to come to Modjo-kerto.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

The specimen I had obtained was a small one, about two feet high, weighing perhaps a hundredweight; and the next day we had it conveyed to Modjo – Kerto to await my return to Sourabaya.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Sourabaya, and the nearest point on the high road to the district I wished to visit.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

The country for many miles behind Sourabaya is perfectly flat and everywhere cultivated; being a delta or alluvial plain, watered by many branching streams.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

In Sourabaya, your troops fight pitched battles with the extremists.

A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978

The Tramp followed and climbed straight ahead till it was at about five hundred feet, slowly raising flaps; then it turned in a wide circle and flew past north of us, climbing, and set a course to the north-west for Sourabaya and vanished up the coast.

ROUND THE BEND Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

We went on in the Tramp in the morning, stopped at Sourabaya for fuel, and put down at Den Pasar airstrip in the middle of the afternoon.

ROUND THE BEND Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951