eight-hundred-mile-long

Updated: August 26, 2026

For, ever since Marshal Daendels, "the Iron Marshal," who ruled the Indies under Napoleon, utilized forced labor to build the splendid eight-hundred-mile-long highway which runs from one end of Java to the other, the corvée has been a synonym for unspeakable cruelty and oppression throughout the Insulinde.

E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell - Where the Strange Trails Go Down: Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits: Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam,: Cochin-China