Charles Prestwood Lucas, Introduction to a historical geography of the British colonies… (1887-1890)
“ And when in 1824, after the Napoleonic wars, Holland, having become a political cypher in Europe, and having lost Ceylon and the Cape, gained by treaty with England recognition of her possessions in the East Indian archipelago, the object with which she became a colonial power was finally attained. The Netherlands Indies at the present day, including Java, part of Sumatra, the Moluccas, Celebes, districts in Borneo and New Guinea, and various other smaller islands, form a splendid and prosperous colonial inheritance ”
