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The Sunda Straits at Anjer

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The Sunda Straits at Anjer

Brandes, Jan

The Sunda Straits at Anjer.

Depicted here is a Javanese proa with a postman who fetched the post from the VOC vessel and travelled onwards over land to Batavia to deliver the post there.

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Sources and literature

Bruijn, M. de en R. Raben, The world of Jan Brandes, 1743-1808: Drawings of a Dutch traveller in Batavia, Ceylon and Southern Africa (2004)