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Show Dutch East Indies' Days About Same Length The Dutch East Indies stretch a distance equal to that from New York to San Francisco. The population popu-lation totals 52,00(f000. The island empire is equal in area to all the states east of the Mississippi Missis-sippi with the exception of the state of that name, reaching from the northern tip of Maine to the southern south-ern tip of Florida, from Lake Michigan Michi-gan to the Gulf of Mexico, including includ-ing 18 states. The whole empire lies full in the equatorial sun and reaches from the tip of northwestern Sumatra to the center of New Guinea (Papua). Throughout the islands all days in the year are about the same length, as the islands all lie close to the equator, notes a writer in the Cleveland Cleve-land Plain Dealer. The Dutch East Indies comprise the larger part of the Malay archipelago archi-pelago and are situated between Australia and southeastern Asia. Their extent may be realized from the fact that the distance from Sa-bang, Sa-bang, north Sumatra, to Merauke, in New Guinea, respectively the western and eastern limits, is 3,000 miles as wide as the Atlantic from New York to London. They include such gruups as the Moluccas, Celebes, Sunda, Timor and Banda islands. Fourteen distinct kinds of people inhabit these islands, some of therr very primitive, others highly civi lized. |
