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**[https://archive.org/details/directoryfornavi00find ''A directory for the navigation of the Indian Archipelago, China, and Japan, from the straits of Malacca and Sunda, and the passages east of Java. To Canton, Shanghai, the Yellow Sea, and Japan, with descriptions of the winds, monsoons, and currents, and general instructions for the various channels, harbours, etc''] by Alexander George Findlay 2nd edition 1878 Archive.org
**[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/1/684 ''Malacca Strait Pilot : comprising strait and its northern approaches, Singapore Strait, and the West Coast of Sumatra''] 1946 Pdf download, Repositori Digital, National Library of Malaysia. Possibly may be sample pages only.
 
*[https://archive.org/details/twoyearsinjungle02horn ''Two Years in the Jungle : the Experiences of a Hunter and Naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo''] by William T Hornaday, Chief Taxidermist, US National Museum 1885 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/somenotesonjavai00boysrich ''Some Notes on Java and its Administration by the Dutch''] by Henry Scott Boys, late Bengal Civil Service 1892 Archive.org
:[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/catalog/sea:095 ''Come to Java: Information for Travellers, with two maps. Trips in the isle of Java…''] Official Tourist Bureau 1920. South East Asia Visions, Cornell University.
:*[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:095/#page/309/mode/1up Map of Java]
:*[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:095/#page/311/mode/1up Map of Netherlands East Indies]. May be very slow to open.
*[https://archive.org/details/ruralsanitationi00wats ''Rural sanitation in the tropics : being notes and observations in the Malay Archipelago, Panama and other lands''] by Sir Malcolm Watson 1915 Archive.org. There is a chapter on Sumatra relating to malaria.
*[https://archive.org/details/lauterbachofchin00lowe ''Lauterbach of the China Sea : the Escapes and Adventures of a Seagoing Falstaff''] by Lowell Thomas, 1930 Archive.org. During WW1 Julius Lauterbach was navigator on the German SMS Emden and subsequently was a prisoner in Singapore at Tangling prison camp [https://archive.org/stream/lauterbachofchin00lowe#page/94/mode/2up page 95], and helped ferment dissatisfaction which led to the 1915 Singapore Mutiny, during which he escaped and fled, initially to Sumatra.
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2724 ''Malayan Symphony : Being the Impressions Gathered During a Six Months' journey Through the Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States, Siam, Sumatera, Java and Bali''] by William Robert Foran 1935. Pdf download, Repositori Digital, National Library of Malaysia. Probably sample pages only.
*[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/1/38285 ''Belle of Bali being impressions of a pleasure cruise to the Dutch East Indies Via Cochin, Colombo, Penang, and Singapore''] by Ardaser Sorabjee N. Wadia 1936. Link to a pdf download Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India.
*[https://archive.org/details/islesofspice00clun ''Isles of Spice''] by Frank Clune 1942. Archive.org Lending Library. A trip in 1939.
*[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/35900 ''French View of the Netherlands Indies''] by G.H. Bousquet ; translated from the French by Philip E. Lilienthal 1940. Pdf download, Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India.
*''Netherlands East Indies'' by Naval Intelligence Division 1944. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70084 Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70085 Volume 2] Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/pepperriceelepha00rick ''Pepper, Rice, and Elephants : a Southeast Asian journey from Celebes to Siam''] by Ruth Masters Rickover 1975 Archive.org Lending Library
*''The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham'' [https://archive.org/details/completeshorts01maug Volume I] Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.460655 Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.553314 Volume III]. Archive.org. The Volume III Preface indicates some of the stories are set in Malaya; there may be Borneo stories in any volume. (See External links, above.) [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Short+Stories%29+AND+creator%3A%28Somerset+Maugham%29&sort=-date Other ''Short Stories'' editions] mainly from the Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/fareasterntales00maug ''Far Eastern Tales''] Archive.org Lending Library.
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