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Excerpt from Java, Sumatra: And the Other Islands of the Dutch East Indies The official Dutch orthography, with one or two slight modifications, has been preserved throughout the book. The Dutch oe has been represented by u; the exact sound inclines to that of the German u; dj and tj should be pronounced dchy, tchy, but with a very slight insistence on the y; nj is like the Spanish n, or the ni in onion; g is always hard. In the atlases those names commencing with tj which are most familiar to the traveller are spelt commencing with ch; but for the sake of uniformity the translator has, hardly without exception, kept to the correct spelling, only substituting u for the Dutch oe. In addition to the works cited in the footnotes, the author's principal sources of reference have been: the Encyclopaedie van Nederlansch-Indie... Samengesteld door P. A. Van der Lith, A. J. Spaan, F. Fokkens, J. F. Snelleman (Leyden, 1896-1905, 4 vols., large 8vo); a vast compilation of everything relating to the Dutch Indies, of which the Dutch are justly proud; the masterly work by P. T. Veth, Java, geographisch, ethnologisch, historisch, 2nd edition, by J. F. Snelleman and J. F. Niermeyer (Leyden, 1896-1907, 4 vols., 8vo); the sincere and picturesque study by the deputy H. van Kol, Uit onze kolonien. Uitvoerig reisverhaal (Leyden, 1903, large 8vo), and a lucid, methodical work by the same author on Dutch and European colonial systems, the Regeerings Almanak voor Nederlandsch-Indie 1909 (Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, 2 vols. 8vo), and the Kolonial verslag van 1908. Zitting 1908-9 (The Hague) gedrukt ver Algemeene Landsdrukkerij, 1909, folio. In the maps, Aj r, Batang, Kali, Kroeeng, Soengai, Sungai = river. Teloek, Dano = lake. Noesa, Poeloe (Nusa, Pulu) = island. Oedjoeng, udjung = point. Tandjong = cape. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."