The earth and its inhabitants .. . earthitsinhabita00recl Year: 1890 THE SOUTHEEN MOLUCCAS. 233 regions ; here resided Yalentijn, and here died Kumphius, the pioneers of scientific exploration in Indonesia. The chief port in Bum offers all the material advantages for a great centre of trade, but on this magnificent and well-sheltered harbour nothing is seen except the obscure village of Kayeli, with a mixed population of about two thousand Fig. 98—Poet of Akboyna. Scale 1 : 80,000. Depths. Oto 16 Feet. 16 to 96 Feet. 96 to 320 Feet. 320 Feet and upwards. .2* Miles. Mussulmans, Christians,
The earth and its inhabitants .. . earthitsinhabita00recl Year: 1890 THE SOUTHEEN MOLUCCAS. 233 regions ; here resided Yalentijn, and here died Kumphius, the pioneers of scientific exploration in Indonesia. The chief port in Bum offers all the material advantages for a great centre of trade, but on this magnificent and well-sheltered harbour nothing is seen except the obscure village of Kayeli, with a mixed population of about two thousand Fig. 98—Poet of Akboyna. Scale 1 : 80,000. Depths. Oto 16 Feet. 16 to 96 Feet. 96 to 320 Feet. 320 Feet and upwards. .2* Miles. Mussulmans, Christians, and Chinese. The shores of Ceram also present no centres of population beyond a few groups of cabins occupied by Malays, some Moham- medan and Christian Alfurus, and a few foreign traders. Of these groups, known as negerifen, from the Hindu nagar, a town, the chief are Ama/iai, centre of the Dutch administration on the south side, and on the north Wahai, a fortified village with an extensive harbour.
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