. Java, Sumatra and the other islands of the Dutch East Indies . GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS HOME, A ROPE FERRY, BORNEO. To face D. 308. BORNEO 309 Holland has retained the suzerainty of 222,850 squaremiles of territory : that is, of a country seventeen times aslarge as Holland herself, and a trifle larger than France,and a population which in 1909 was estimated by con-jecture, but without exaggeration, as amounting to1,172,800, including 55,520 Chinese, 3,140 Arabs, and1,382 Europeans. II. The geological formation of Borneo may be largelyreferred to the tertiary period; but in Borneo aloneo
. Java, Sumatra and the other islands of the Dutch East Indies . GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS HOME, A ROPE FERRY, BORNEO. To face D. 308. BORNEO 309 Holland has retained the suzerainty of 222,850 squaremiles of territory : that is, of a country seventeen times aslarge as Holland herself, and a trifle larger than France,and a population which in 1909 was estimated by con-jecture, but without exaggeration, as amounting to1,172,800, including 55,520 Chinese, 3,140 Arabs, and1,382 Europeans. II. The geological formation of Borneo may be largelyreferred to the tertiary period; but in Borneo aloneof all the islands of the Archipelago fossils have beenfound of a period anterior to the tertiary. There ismuch less evidence of volcanic action in Borneo than inthe rest of the Archipelago. The island is crossed by a series of mountainous tractsrunning from the north-east to the south-west, wherethey spread out into several distinct ranges. In thecentre of the island also there are some ramificationsof the main range, less notable than those of the south-west, which run in a south-easterly direc
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