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A mid-18th century map of the important port of Batavia (Jakarta), with military forts, a pier, hospitals, churches, and residential streets. However, the city is also surrounded by fields and plantations, for producing crops and grazing animals.

Hand-drawn ground plan of a military barracks, probably in the Dutch East Indies. It is surrounded by a moat, with barracks for soldiers, houses for officers, stables for horse artillery, and a parade ground in the centre.