TENIMBER. 



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On tlie other hand the Macassar navigators gave to the largest of the Tenimber 

 Archipelago the name of Timor-Laut, or " Seaward Eastland," to indicate its 

 position in reference to Celebes. From the geographical standpoint they may be 

 regarded as collectively forming the eastern limit of the Indonesian world ; beyond 



Fig. 90. — Tenimbee- 

 Scale 1 : 1,700,(X)0. 



Depths. 



Oto 50 

 Fathoms. 



50 Fathoms 

 and upwards. 



30 Miles. 



them flows the Arafura Sea, whose shores are inhabited by Papuasian and Austra- 

 lian populations. 



These thinly-peopled islands have not yet been thoroughly explored, and even 

 the coasts are here and there still traced with uncertain lines. Till recently 



