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Details of each area’s resources are printed on this map of Sumatra: rattan, coffee, pepper, Chinese cinnamon, tobacco, resins, camphor, cotton, coal, gold, lumber, elephants, horses, as well as the locals’ ethnicity (Malays, Javanese, Acehnese).

A topographical and geological map of southern Sumatra, over four sheets. Areas of igneous and sedimentary rock, coal, fossils, petroleum, active volcanoes and hot springs are marked, along with mountains, rivers and marshland, roads and settlements.

Map of the eastern half of the Dutch colonial administrative region (residency) of Palembang, Sumatra. A fort is marked in the town of Batoeradja. (From ‘Algemeene Atlas van Nederlandsche Indie [General Atlas of the Dutch East Indies]’.)