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Partie de la nouvelle Grande Cartes des Indes Orientales, contenant les Isles Maldives, Ceylan, Malacca, Sumatra &c.

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location_onIndonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand

Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula feature on this map of the Indian Ocean. Enganno Island, west of southern Sumatra, has a label that translates as ‘inhabited by very pernicious savages’. An inset map depicts the Madura Strait between Java and Madura.

Carte des Indes et de la Chine

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location_onBrunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam

The regional borders of early 18th century Southeast Asia are shown on this map. Mountains are shown pictorially, and larger settlements are marked with a building symbol. Southern Borneo is labelled ‘Pays des Mahometans [Land of the Muslims]’.

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