| Show dutch kast east indies days about same length the dutch a byork distance equal to thit that from new york to son san franeisco Frari cisco the population I 1 totals the island empire Is equal in area to all the stites states east of the mississippi with thi the exception of the state of that n name e reaching from the northern tam up lp ot of maine to the southern tip of florida from laki lake michigan to the gulf of ofa I 1 mexico including I 1 18 states the whole dempre lies full la in the equatorial sun and reaches from the tip of northwestern sumatra Suma to the center of new guinea papua throughout the islands all days in the year are about the same length as the islands islan dif all lie close cl to the a writer cleveland plain dealer the dutch east indies the larger martof the malay archipelago and are situated between betwee ii australia and southeastern asia their extent may be realized from the tact fact that the distance from bom north i sumatra to Mer auke in new guinea respectively the western tern and eastern limits is miles as wide as the atlantic from new york to london they include such groups as the celebes celebes sunda timor and Banda islands fourteen distinct kinds of 0 people inhabit these islands some of them very primitive others highly civilized |
