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*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Q9QvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA217 Alexander Dalrymple 1737-1808] page 217 ''The General Biographical Dictionary: Volume 11''<ref>Full title ''The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation: Particulary the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, Volume 11</ref> by Alexander Chalmers 1813. Appointed a writer 1752 in Madras. Obtained a grant of the island of Balambangan (an island off North Borneo, now part of the Malaysian state of Sabah), controlled by the Sultan of Sulu (Sooloo) for the East India Company in 1763. Hydrographer.
:[http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/asian-and-african/2014/06/alexander-dalrymples-treaties-with-sulu-in-malay-and-tausug.html Alexander Dalrymple’s Treaties with Sulu in Malay and Tausug] 05 June 2014 British Library Asian and African studies blog.
*''The History of Java'' by Thomas Stamford Raffles 1817 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/b22012382_0001 Volume I] with [https://archive.org/stream/b22012382_0001#page/n593/mode/1up Map of Java], [https://archive.org/details/b22012382_0002 Volume II]. The Illustrations were later reprinted: [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=4ANMAAAAcAAJ&pg=PT4 ''Antiquarian, Architectural and Landscape Illustrations of the History of Java''] by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles 1844 Google Books. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/yul.11816219_003_00?urlappend=%3Bseq=6 Hathi Trust edition], where the pages are able to be rotated.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=8WVTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The Eastern Seas, or Voyages and adventures in the Indian Archipelago, in 1832, 33, 34 ... also an account of the present state of Singapore, etc''] by George Windsor Earl 1837 Google Books
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=t5leAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR4 ''De Zieke Reiziger: Or, Rambles in Java and the Straits. in 1852''] [The Invalid Traveller] by A Bengal Civilian [[http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=2052 Charles Walter Kinloch] victorianresearch.org] 1853 Google Books.
*''Java, or How to Manage a Colony. Showing a practical solution to the questions now affecting British India'' by J W B Money 1861 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/javaorhowtomanag01moneuoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/javaorhowtomanag02moneuoft Volume II]
*[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/catalog/sea:123 ''Jottings of an invalid in search of health, comprising a run through British India and a visit to Singapore and Java : a series of letters reprinted from the "Times of India"''] by Tom Cringle. [Author: William Walker] 1865. South East Asia Visions, Cornell University. Also available in the [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_0000000356A0 British Library Digital Collection]
*''The China Sea Directory'' by the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London.
**''The China Sea Directory Volume I. Containing directions for the approaches to the China Sea and to Singapore, by the straits of Sunda, Banka, Gaspar, Carimata, Rhio, Varella, Durian, and Singapore'' by J. W. Reed , R N and J. W. King, R N. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nP4GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 1867] Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924071164960 3rd edition 1886] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/visittojavawitha00wors ''A Visit to Java : with an Account of the Founding of Singapore''] by William Basil Worsfold 1893 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/withdutchineasto00cool ''With the Dutch in the East. An outline of the military operations in Lombock, 1894, giving also a popular account of the native characteristics,…''] by Capt W Cool (Dutch Engineer). Translated from the Dutch by E J Taylor 1897 Archive.org
*[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/catalog/sea:021/ ''A Padre in Partibus: being notes and impressions of a brief holiday tour through Java, the Eastern Archipelago and Siam ... Reprinted from the “Singapore Free Press.”''] by G. M. Reith, (George Murray), 1897. Cornell University Library- Southeast Asia Visions. Also available in the [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034D46 British Library Digital Collection]
*[https://archive.org/details/policyandadmini02daygoog ''The Policy and Administration of the Dutch in Java''] by Clive Day 1904 [https://archive.org/details/policyandadmini01daygoog 2nd book file] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924011120833 ''My Tour in Eastern Rubber Lands''] by Herbert Wright 1908 Archive.org [[Ceylon]], [[Malaysia|Malaya]], Java, Sumatra
