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JAVA: THE GARDEN OF THE EAST

quired to deliver fixed quantities of coarse salt at the government warehouses at the rate (in 1897) of ten gulden the kojan (1853 kilograms). The government manages the tin-mines on Banka Island in the Java Sea, while the mines of the neighboring Billeton Island are leased to private individuals.