Boekit Barisan was the mountain range of Sumatra whose passes Van Daalen crossed with two hundred marechaussées on his march into the Gajò and Alas interior.
Its limestone outliers formed the inhospitable complex behind the plain of the IV Moekims Lhong, in which a band could hold out only in a few caves — the terrain that made the suppression of the Lhong resistance of 1914 “no difficult opposition.”
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Account from Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu
The Sumatran mountain range, meaning ‘mountains in rows’. Three parallel chains form two longitudinal valleys, the easternmost cut off from the coast by an east-west chain. Extends from Cambodja/Burma via Andamanen/Nicobaren, Sumatra, Java, Lesser Sundas to Banda Islands.
Source: J. Jongejans, Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu (Baarn: Hollandia Drukkerij N.V., c. 1938), pp. 179, 185.
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Generaal Swart, Pacificator van Atjeh (“General Swart, Pacifier of Atjeh”), by M. H. du Croo, Colonel K.N.I.L. (retired), with the collaboration of H. J. Schmidt, Titular Colonel K.N.I.L. (retired), with a foreword by His Excellency Lieutenant-General K.N.I.L. (retired) G. K. Dijkstra (Maastricht: N.V. Leiter-Nypels, 1943), Chapter III, XII.
Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu, by J. Jongejans, Oud-Resident van het Gewest Atjeh en Onderhoorigheden, with a foreword by Dr. H. Colijn (Baarn: Hollandia Drukkerij N.V., c. 1938), pp. 179, 185.