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The great island of Sumatra is nearly four times as large as Java and the fifth island of the whole world in area, Greenland, New Guinea, Borneo, and Madagascar alone surpassing it. ‘It lies almost equally in the northern and southern hemispheres, north-west of Java, and west and south of the Malay Peninsula, its western and northern shores being washed by the Indian ocean. It has a length of 1,000 miles and a maximum breadth of 230 miles. Of the vast area of this enormous island a large part is still unexplored and unknown. The interior plateaus, forests, and mountains are still the home of cannibal tribes and the haunt of elephants and tigers.’¹