amanoubang

Updated: November 15, 2024

But they found that the prosperity which had made the colony an object of wonder and admiration to the French travellers who had visited it with Baudin, had passed away. The Rajah of Amanoubang, the district where the sandal-tree grows in such abundance, who was formerly a tributary prince, was carrying on war to gain independence.

Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers: Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century