Kroeng Raija was a locality in the mountains east of the valley of Lamtoba — not to be confused with the coastal river and post of Kroëng Raja westwards — which was the objective of the great Dutch reconnaissance of 12 August 1879 from the bivak at Lamtoba, as recorded in W. Cool and G. B. Hooijer’s Eene schoone bladzijde uit Atjeh’s geschiedenis (1889).
Situation in the reconnaissance of 1879
The reconnaissance under Majoor Ducroo — three companies of infantry, half the detachment of Mineurs, an ambulance of fifteen tandoes, the chief of staff and an opnemer — marched twelve palen through the mountains; the commander himself, with the chief of staff, the surveyor and a covering detachment, pushed on to the near neighbourhood of Kroeng Raija, a circuit of sixteen palen. The country proved to be wilderness never before entered by a European: apart from some paseijs — the little mountain hamlets — a few refugees of the XXVI Moekims, a white flag hung out from a high tree, and an abundance of fresh elephant tracks in the soft soil, nothing of note was found. Unquestionably, the authors observed, great herds of the elephants kept in this wild region. The column, which had started without artillery and could therefore march fast, was back in the bivak only at half past four in the afternoon — to find awaiting it the order for the march against Selimoen, in view of which the heavy day’s work would otherwise never have been undertaken.
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Eene schoone bladzijde uit Atjeh’s geschiedenis, door W. Cool en G. B. Hooijer (‘s-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, 1889), p. 37. OCR-filename: 20260720_115822_DLP-135-Eene_schoone_bladzijde_uit_Atjeh_s_geschiedenis_Nemotron_OCR_v2_OCR.txt.