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This map charts the journey of Holt S. Hallett as he searched for a suitable route for a railway to transport British goods from Burma to Thailand and China. He wrote the book ‘A Thousand Miles on an Elephant in the Shan States’ about his expedition.

Topographic map of the island of Bawean in the Java Sea, with terrain shown by contour lines, and mountains labelled with their heights. Villages, forests (heavy, light, teakwood) and crops (coconut, coffee, alang-alang, rice, bamboo) are marked.

This map of the Atjeh and its surrounding area (modern province of Aceh, Indonesia) is divided into administrative areas. There is an inset map of the capital city Kota Radja (Banda Aceh), and mountains (with their height) and rivers are marked.