EASTERN GEOGRAPHY. 



Tiicnl of the " Hutch En>i Imluw." North of the .Tnmbi river are the 

 native State* of Jambi, Judragiri, Kampur, Kiak, Aw>akan, 13atitiiara, 

 Serd&ng, Deli t Lan-jkat, ami Kfn)i, which acknowledge the suzerain! y 

 of Holland, while the JMta rind An Inn laudn arc still unreduced. 



Tfj-- 1 " Hi ll pOM-^simiK am nduiiHwU'rvd by a Lieaieuant'(i-»V4>rtiar 

 mkU'tit at Padau-i, autl LLiiiitT ]ti.H jurisnlii-tirm are six separate lU'aidcouiia, 

 as under : 



1. Pa oa so, on ili<> u--j-t i-oast, 



2. The PAiJA^OlE-BoYKNlAXDZK; or 11 Padaiif" Plateau." 



3. Tai-ani'ij, to(£ndrog Singk-d, north-west L-oaat. 



4. BjUJoClBK, south -WL*t toast. 



J5. LASirFNCK, the louthcm extremity of th« i-diind, 

 6, PATiBflUTO, with Lainbi, east coast. 



Chief Towns. — t\ulnuj, capital of the west coast government, on 

 the Pudar-j river, the most important town in Sumatra, was founded 

 in l€tK>, when iho Portuguese were driven from a neighbouring 

 factor)'. It is defended by n fort standing mth mile- lli-- riv ■.•)'. nni 

 does a brisk import trade in pepper, camphor, betuoui, and colfae. 

 jPadang was first visited hy the English in lu49, seized by thein in 

 1781, and restored to Holland at the general peace of 1614. Faltrm- 

 batnj t next in importance, rind a larger pi ace than Pad an g, occupies 

 hoth brinks of the Musi, about fifty miles from it* mouth, and 

 accessible to \ur;< vi--< I-, J; is tr..- ^r.-.ii <>ui | *<>ri ittu «f the iuhiiui 

 tf/tdv, :i3L' L li;i< A l.ir^u mixed popuiat LOIj • MjdnVri, J ■■v.uui-:-r ) arid 

 Cliinem?, with fiumu Dutch ofliciuU and auUHers. Here are the 

 palace? occupied by the native princes before the kingdom of 

 Fuleiubun-*; was reduced by the Dutch. &taA, a butty trading place 

 in the nurtli-cast, lkucuU-u T capital of a Dutch Residency, on the 

 south-wet coast, in an unhealthy district at the mouth of the 



IV-Eh.tii1i.-ji t.M-t ■".-.•Ilp:.-d I'V lh- ICli.'li -h from 1HS"». \\ ln-rj [h«-v 



quitted IM'kviu, till 1825, when they ceded it to the Dutch in 

 oxcbim-ji: Ww Malnccu. Although now a p-maU pljice with unexposed 

 roadstead, it still export* some pepper and camphor. Other seaports 

 are AcUin y Deli, Mutttok, BengL-at is, Tehtk lietong y and Tapuuulu 



Acilis ( property A*ttK from the Hindustani Arhcha, " good,' 1 "flue 

 the northernmost town in Sumatra, gives its iiamo ti> the irirkpi.-inJi-m 

 Malay State, ouuupyllty the northern nxtremity of the island, whose extant 

 is variously estimated at from SOO (Ycth) to 1200 ( Anderson) square mik-% 

 Thi* State rose to great power under Sultau Iskaudtr Muila (1807 — ltiStf), 

 whoso sway extended for 1100 miles round the coast from Am opposite 

 Malm ra to" Pudang, and whose lupremaov was also acknowledged by the 

 island of ttias, and by thu continental alalny States of Johor, Pahang, 



