Another installment in Carpenter's travels of the world. This time we visit Java, the East Indies, Sumatra, Borneo, The Moluccas, New Guinea, Celebes and the Malay Peninsula. (Summary by Betty)
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Just a Word Before We Start
03:36 - Chapter 2
In Old Batavia
13:12 - Chapter 3
A Day at Weltervreden
11:36 - Chapter 4
Dutch Rule in the East Indies
14:05 - Chapter 5
How Java Paid Its Way
08:43 - Chapter 6
On a Big Tea Plantation
17:03 - Chapter 7
The Netherlands India Army
11:45 - Chapter 8
In and Around Bandong
20:03 - Chapter 9
How Quinine is Produced
18:55 - Chapter 10
Across Java by Rail
10:22 - Chapter 11
In the Rice Fields
08:36 - Chapter 12
The Initiation of a Prince
12:16 - Chapter 13
Within the Sultan's Palace City
10:16 - Chapter 14
The Women of Java
17:32 - Chapter 15
The Shrine of a Thousand Buddhas
21:12 - Chapter 16
The Sultan of Solo
21:50 - Chapter 17
On the Coffee Estates
14:46 - Chapter 18
Volcanoes of the Land of Fire
11:06 - Chapter 19
The Sand Sea and the Bromo
10:10 - Chapter 20
Surabaya, the Sugar Centre
16:31 - Chapter 21
Colonial Life in the Dutch East Indies
18:15 - Chapter 22
Cruising Through the Sunda Sea
09:38 - Chapter 23
The Rajah of Lombok as Tax Collector
07:49 - Chapter 24
Celebes and the Moluccas
06:44 - Chapter 25
The Home of Birds of Paradise
16:07 - Chapter 26
Tattooed Debutantes and Wasp-Waisted Men
18:11 - Chapter 27
Borneo, An Outpost of Colonization
17:03 - Chapter 28
The Head-Hunting Dyaks
17:32 - Chapter 29
About Sumatra
22:48 - Chapter 30
Singapore, A Gateway of the Orient
17:55 - Chapter 31
Chinese Workers and Malay Drones
19:11 - Chapter 32
John Bull in Malaya
10:34 - Chapter 33
The Sultan of Johore
07:53