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Moulmein is the cliief town of Tenasserim, about seventy miles down 
the coast, to the South of Rangoon. It is situated thirty miles up the 
river Sal win. Population (1881), 53,107 souls. Tbe staple prodticta are 
timber, riee nnd cottcrn ; and, like Rangoon, it caiTies on a considerable 
trade witli the Straits. It is celehrat*>d for the precioufl stones, found 
in the interior. It was opened during the first Burmese" war in 1825, 
and is one of our English possessions in British Burma. 
Sumatra. 
The trade of Sumatra with which the Colony is most concerned is 
that of the pepper-<listi'icta in the North (Edi, Oleh-leh and Singkel) ; 
from these the trade finds its way to Benang. The tobu ceo -districts are 
in the East (Langkatj Deli and Serdanfr) ; and rice and other produce 
are brought from the ancient State of Balembangj in the South of 
Sumatraj, to Singapore. 
Java- 
Batarm is the capital of all the Dutch East" Indies, as well as 
of Java, and is a great seaport and trading place, eonnecti^d by telegraph 
with Singapore the principal trading plnccs are Cherihon, Samarang, 
Sonrabaya, Tplaljup (on the South), Bawian (Boyan) near Madura, a 
small but populous isluud from which iSingupore receives one of its prin- 
cipal streams of poimlation. 
Celrhes, 
Memdo is the capital of the nortLem Peninsula; Boni in the middle 
is the country of the Bugis ; and Macn^sar on the western coast of the 
southern peninsula, facing the Sunda Sea, is the chief place in Celebes, 
and the deput of trade with Java and Singapore, 
The Moluccas, 
Amhoynaj is the capital. Banda and Ternate are niider its adminis- 
tration. 
The Philippines. 
Maniiaj on the West coast of Luzon, famims for sugar, hemp and 
tobacco, is the capital of the Spanish Philippines, and curries on an 
extensive trade, sending out these thinp as well as cigai's and coffee, as 
far as Britain and the United States. Ilo-Ilo on the island of Panay, 
is the second sea -port of the group and is the outlet of the best hemp-grow- 
ing district. 
TiMoa, 
Timor is divided into two possessions — ^Butch and Portuguese. Koe- 
pang J a fine port, at the south- western extremity of the island, belongs 
to the Dutch. a sea-port on the North coast of Timor, is the chief 
place at which the Poitugnese exercise the tittle authority they ^ still 
possess in the ^U'chipelago. 
