Lam-toeulo is the place in Aceh that was the base of the colonial army’s elephant-transport — the place to which the transport-elephants were transported in 1913 to serve the transport to Tangsé and the still more southerly post Geumpang. In Oost-Indisch Journael by Merac (1947), Lam-toeulo is the book’s marker of the transverse road — the road from Lam-toeulo via Tangsé to Geumpang along which the elephant-transport operated.
The 1913 transport
In 1913 the transport-elephants were transported to Lam-toeulo to serve the transport to Tangsé and the still more southerly post Geumpang. The transport of the transport-elephants to Lam-toeulo in 1913 is the book’s marker of the elephant-transport’s base: the place from which the elephant-transport operated along the transverse road.
The transverse road
It was decided to abolish the elephant-transport in Aceh in connection with the establishment of the lorry-transport along the so-called transverse road from Lam-toeulo via Tangsé to Geumpang. The transverse road — the road from Lam-toeulo via Tangsé to Geumpang — is the book’s marker of the lorry-transport that replaced the elephant-transport.
Significance
Lam-toeulo is significant in Oost-Indisch Journael as the base of the colonial army’s elephant-transport — the place to which the transport-elephants were transported in 1913 and from which the elephant-transport operated along the transverse road to Tangsé and Geumpang. The book’s argument — that the elephant-transport was abolished in connection with the establishment of the lorry-transport along the transverse road — is the book’s marker of the end of the old-time elephant-transport. Lam-toeulo is therefore the book’s marker of the elephant-transport’s base: the place from which the elephant-transport operated until its abolition.
See Also
- Oost-Indisch Journael
- Transport-olifanten (Aceh)
- Tangsé
- Geumpang
- Agam
- Isah
- Sarah
- Rimba
- Atjeh-oorlog
- 1913
Source
Oost-Indisch Journael: Palaver om de tafel met het gat, by Merac, Toekan-Serie no. 2, ed. G. L. Tichelman (Haarlem: De Gulden Pers, 1947), chapter Atjeh’s Transport-Olifanten.