| Nachts im Suezkanal | 9 |
| Abend in Asien | 14 |
| Spazierenfahren | 20 |
| Augenlust | 25 |
| Der Hanswurst | 33 |
| Architektur | 35 |
| Singapur-Traum | 40 |
| Überfahrt | 50 |
| Pelaiang | 54 |
| Sozieteit | 60 |
| Nacht auf Deck | 64 |
| Waldnacht | 70 |
| Palembang | 77 |
| Wassermärchen | 83 |
| Die Gräber von Palembang | 86 |
| Maras | 90 |
| Spaziergang in Kandy | 96 |
| Tagebuchblatt aus Kandy | 102 |
| Pedrotallagalla | 108 |
| Rückreise | 112 |
| Reisende Asiaten | 119 |
| Gedichte | 123 |
| Gegenüber von Afrika | 125 |
| Abend auf dem Roten Meer | 126 |
| Ankunft in Ceylon | 127 |
| Nachts in der Kabine | 128 |
| Fluß im Urwald | 129 |
| Kein Trost | 131 |
| Nachtfest der Chinesen in Singapur | 132 |
| Im malayischen Archipel | 133 |
| Bei Nacht | 134 |
| Pelaiang | 135 |
| Vor Colombo | 136 |
| Robert Aghion | 137 |
About This Book
A series of travel sketches and diary fragments chronicles a voyage through the eastern seas and Ceylon, offering vivid sensory accounts of shipboard nights, canal stoppages, tropical landscapes, port arrivals, and street impressions. The narrator observes local customs and fleeting encounters with other travelers and residents, attending closely to light, sound, and mood. Interspersed poems and journal pages lend a reflective, sometimes melancholic tone, producing compact vignettes that meditate on displacement, cultural difference, and the small, telling incidents that shape the experience of travel.