. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. TOPOGRAPHY OF SUMATRA. Ill local saying, " Benkulen is a small place with big houses, where small people bear big ; From the end of the seventeenth century till 1824, it belonged to the East India Compan}^, which had made it the capital of its Indonesian possessions. But the harbour has gradually silted up, and the local trade has withdrawn a few miles farther south, to the more convenient Silebar Bay. The town is unhealthy, and in 1714 the English had already removed their residence to Fort Marlborough^ some miles farther north.
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. TOPOGRAPHY OF SUMATRA. Ill local saying, " Benkulen is a small place with big houses, where small people bear big ; From the end of the seventeenth century till 1824, it belonged to the East India Compan}^, which had made it the capital of its Indonesian possessions. But the harbour has gradually silted up, and the local trade has withdrawn a few miles farther south, to the more convenient Silebar Bay. The town is unhealthy, and in 1714 the English had already removed their residence to Fort Marlborough^ some miles farther north. The houses, injured by earthquakes, are often left unrepaired, and the neglected appearance of the place is increased by the general Fig. 42.—Palembang. Scale 1 : 75, 10 4" 47 3,300 Yards. poverty of its Malay and Chinese inhabitants. The surrounding district is not very fertile, and the neighbouring coffee plantations have been abandoned. Despite the excellent commercial position of the ports, lying in deep inlets at the southern extremity of the island, the local trade chiefly in pepper, and dammar resin, has been little developed. Even before the Krakatau eruption, which spread havoc along the seaboard, the region of the Lampongs, or "Lowlands," did not contain a single important town. At present the chief centre of population is Telokh-Batong, a group of eight villages skirling Larapong Bay and a neigh-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912. New York, D. Appleton and company
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