East Indies, as distinguished from West Indies, include not merely the two great peninsulas of Southern Asia, but likewise all the adjacent islands from the delta of the Indus to the northern extremity of the Philippines (see INDIA). For the Dutch East Indies, called sometimes Insulinde, see HOLLAND.
East Indies
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 176
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