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SUMBA (TJENDANA, or SANDALWOOD)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 75 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: STE-SUS
SUMBA (TJENDANA, or SANDALWOOD) , one of the Lesser Sunda Islands in the Dutch
East
  Indies, lying
south
  of Flores, from which it is separated by Sumba strait, about 1o S., 120 E. It has an area of about 4600 sq. m., consists of a
plateau
  with an extreme
elevation
  of about 3300 ft., and appears to be composed mainly of sedimentary rocks. It has a large Malay population (estimated at 200,000). Some trade is carried on in
cotton
 , ponies, edible birds' nests, tortoiseshell, &c., mainly by Bugis and Arabs, the
chief
  centre for which is Waingapu or Nangamessi on the north-
east
 
coast
 . Sumba is included in the Dutch residency of Timor, together with the lesser island of Savu, to the east. From this last island the sea is enclosed by Timor, Sumba and the islands between them, and Flores and the chain of islands east of it is called the Savu Sea.
" Kota " means
settlement
  or township, and a
great
  many districts have been named from the number of kotas they contain; e.g. the VII. Kotas, the VIII. Kotas, &c.


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