For many years the peasants of the region between samarang and Boro-Boedoer paid their taxes in gold melted from the treasure trove turned up by the plough, or dug from the precincts of some forgotten sanctuary, buried beneath the rank vegetation of the teaming soil.
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings
On the day when, with many misgivings, he ran away from a Dutch East-Indiaman in samarang roads, he had commenced that study of himself, of his own ways, of his own abilities, of those fate-compelling qualities of his which led him toward that lucrative position which he now filled.
"An Outcast of the Islands"
Joseph Conrad
To the right are the larger vessels that run between the different European ports, and among them are to be seen the beautiful three-masted ships that sail to and from the East Indies, with their names, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, samarang, written on them in letters of gold, bringing to the imagination those far-off ports and savage nations like the echo of far-off voices.
"Holland, v. 1 (of 2)"
Edmondo de Amicis
