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EASTERN GEOGRAPHY, 



Borneo, and the Philippines They find employment as miners and 

 cultivator* in Romeo, as petty dealers and labourers in all the large 

 count towns, and as trader.-* and Heaftirers aJtiio^t everywhere. But 

 although il hirg«: slum- of tin* ^noral i-uininereiul movement i- in 

 their bauds, atid although their relations with the archipelago are of 

 l«n^' elandin^, they appear to buve formed very fin- th-d oitninu- 

 niitrs of ti permanent character beyond Singapore and the Malay 

 lVn insula. Even where alliances of a more or le*m temporary 

 nature arc formed with the native women, their chief ambition ia 

 to make enough money to retire ritid spend their remaining years 

 araffl£ftt their friendit at home. Even when these hopes are thwarted 

 by the incurahle nationnl vice of gambling, they still endeavour to 

 leave ftuflident to have their bodies brought back for burial in their 

 native kind, H<Miro tW fi-ar> 'i> on*- tiniiM'iili'iiaitU'd thul the archi- 

 pelago might become an Oceanic China are not likely to be realised. 



>\'.*1 in iiiifnaiutiru arc the KlxWM (TeliiiffitfO from the JTiidras JVsi- 

 ilcaey. whose- imsitieiii ir, c In- ;in-1ii|irlup;o U Wiiat-whiit annlogoes Ti n 1 Irs-; 



coiiiiliiinJiiig than 1 h ir ..1 1in I5,i]iinu>. of V<»\\\\ iy in Zanzibar ami tl Hut 



fculuiK plncttK round the shore* of the Indian Ocean. Some Arab com- 

 niunitiM an alfO found at various points, i\n in the, ^ulu Islands, where 

 M. MuiiMijn l ■ ■- . j 1 1 Z t. rjn t ,i viti.il] .^:oiip of [UMirl^ pari' Andw, but so 

 long settle! in tin- I'oimiry iltnt they had lout all iiieuiory of their distant 

 homes. — La yainrt, April, 1880* The Kurapenna, riulitienl musters of (he 

 ivholi 1 ivgimi. rai'L' innvln'ii' numerous, .mil iirm'ltt-rn form pTniuai'iiE v-Ul' 1 - 

 mrnt« iri these tropical lands. They Inlong almost exclusively to the 

 ollin.il ikinl military ela^r*, mid, like the t']iiue«c 4 haaten to i|iu't the 

 country as soon his they become entitled to retiring pensions. 



CHAPTER IV, 



OBOGRAPHICAL AND POLITICAL DIVISIONS — DUTCH, SPANISH, ENGLISH, 

 tJ EEC MAN, ANt> I'fUtTUGL'EH.K TEftltlTOItlErt— ASIATIC, OCEANIC, AND 

 AUSTRALIAN NATURAL DI VISIONS. 



Politically the whole of the Extern Archipelago is distributed 

 unionist the live European States nf llnllaud, Spain, G real BriLuti, 

 Germany, ami Portugal. Some districts,, such an parts of North 

 Smiiulra, Borneo, Celebes, mid New tiuinea, are im doubt pruelteally 

 beyond the control of any foreign power; but their nulonoiuy is 

 acaroaly anywhere recognised, so that for Administrative purposes 

 the urchijielo^o must be regarded a.i a dependency of Europe. The 



