10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SANDALWOOD ISLAND»
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The India Directory, Or, Directions for Sailing to and from ...
Chiefly from Original Journals of the Honourable Company's Ships, and from
Observations and Remarks, Resulting from the Experience of Twenty-one Years
in the Navigation of Those Seas. South coast. Port of Ende. Sandalwood ' Island.
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India Directory, Or Directions for Sailing to and from the ...
The channel betwixt Sandalwood Island and the South coast of Flores, is about
10 or 12 leagues wide, and clear of danger. SANDALWOOD ISLAND, or
JEENDANA, has been partly described in volume fijfiajijf" first of this work ; but a
farther ...
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The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects ...
A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs. Sandalwood
Island. This Island has become of much interest from the intercourse on the part
of the natives with Europeans, having been renewed within the last few years,
after ...
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India Directory, Or, Directions for Sailing to and from the ...
Captain White describes the south-east coast of Sandalwood Island, to have a
reef fronting it at the distance of3 or 4 miles. At noon, August 7th, 1828, the
Satellite observed the lat. 10° 29' S., lon. 120° 21' E. by chronometer, the south
point of ...
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
... Yellow Saunders BT Santalum _Diseases and pests ($3608. S33] NT Spike
disease of Sandalwood Sandalwood Island (Fiji) USE Vanua Levu (Fiji)
Sandalwood Island (Indonesia) USE Sumba Island (Indonesia) Sandalwood oil (
May ...
Library of Congress, 2006
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
... Indian USE Sandalwood Sandalwood, White USE Sandalwood Sandalwood
Island (Fiji) USE Vanua Levu (Fiji) Sandalwood Island (Indonesia) USE Sumba
Island (Indonesia) Sandalwood oil Sandalwood trade (May Subd Geog) [HD9769
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Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism
This is why the elder brother, who defends him, responds that, on the contrary,
Pūrn.a is prosperity itself. 23. It is possible that this place is the island designated
on English maps with the name Sandalwood Island, situated at 10° north latitude
...
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The India Directory: Or, Directions for Sailing to and from ...
should be preferred, particularly with variable winds ; nor can it be requisite to
pass to the westward of Sandalwood Island, unless the wind blow strong from
north-westward, with a lee current, then it may be desiable to pass to windward.
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The East Indian gazetteer: containing particular ...
Sandalwood Island. — A large island in the Eastern seas situated to the south of
Floris, about the tenth degree of north latitude. In length it may be estimated at
100 miles, by thirty the average breadth. The native name is Sumba. It is
described ...
Walter Hamilton (M.R.A.S.), 1828
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The Oriental Navigator, Or, New Directions for Sailing to ...
REMARKS ON SANDALWOOD ISLAND, By Captain Robert Williams, THIS
Island, which the natives call Jeendana, the Malay name for Sandal, is situated
off die coasts of Flores and Cumbawa : as it lies in the track of all ships bound
through ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SANDALWOOD ISLAND»
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Kiribati's Climate Change Plan B: Buy a New Island Home
Vanua Levu is the second largest island in Fiji, and used to be a colonial outpost called Sandalwood Island. Kiribati began negotiations for the land two years ... «Smithsonian, Jul 14»
Water World
The Dutch, who opened the East Indies in the 1600s to the spice trade, called Sumba ''Sandalwood Island.'' They relinquished control of Indonesia after World ... «New York Times, Nov 10»
