CHAPTER V.

Commerce--Advantageous Situation of Java for Commercial Intercourse--Importance of Batavia in particular--Native Trade--Roads and Inland Carriage--Markets--Influence of the Chinese--Coasting Trade--Exports and Imports--Trade with the Archipelago--China--Kamtschatka--Western India--Europe, &c.--Dutch Commercial Regulations--State of the Eastern Islands--Advantages which they possess--Causes of the Depression of the Nations and Tribes which inhabit them--Japan Trade 210