Excerpt from Report on Certain Economic Questions in the English and Dutch Colonies in the Orient, 1902 In making a summary statement on a question so broad as that of the work of a country as seen in various colonies Wherein the condi tions must of necessity differ, it must be understood that the state ment can not be complete. In the nature of the case, from the mere fact of its incompleteness, it must fail to do justice to many conditions in arts of the colonies under consideration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.