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A map of government land around the town of Montrado, Borneo, a gold mining centre in the 19th century, as shown by the number of gold mines (‘goudmijn’) marked. There are also crops—coconut, alang-alang, bamboo—and agricultural and fish ponds.

The residency of Pasoeroean (Pasuruan), East Java, featuring crops (coffee, cinchona (kina), rice, alang-alang, bamboo) and fishing ponds. Two inset maps: a triangulation map, and a map of distances between settlements by various types of transport.

Three-sheet topographic map of the residency of Madoera (Madura, East Java), with an inset map of distances between locations. Administrative districts, crops—bamboo, sugarcane, alang-alang, rice, coconut, betel—salt pans and fishing ponds are shown.

Map of the Karimunjawa Islands (Java Sea) marked with the locations of shoals, reefs, anchor points and sea depth (bathymetry) to aid navigation; and with geological sites (recent rock/coral formation, basalt rock, schist rock and quartz).

Map of the crops—coconut, alang-alang, rice, nipa palm, bamboo—grown along the Mempawah River (west coast of Borneo). There are also large areas of swampy forest, Malay mosques, shrines and graveyards, and Chinese villages, temples and graveyards.

This map is colour-coded to show the different languages and dialects spoken in Sumatra in the late 19th century.

A map of the department of Deli, Java, divided into administrative districts, and spread over eight sheets. Rivers, railways, roads and paths, forests and mountains, and crops—rice, coconut, pepper, nutmeg, alang-alang—are marked.

British Burma is shown on the right of this two-sheet map of India. The green areas had come under British rule after the first and second Anglo-Burmese wars, with Upper Burma (light brown) being incorporated after the Third Anglo-Burmese War (1885).