Indoasia

"At any rate we can say that it seems likely from the present distribution of A. duodenale and N. americanus as determined in surveys recently made of selected groups that there were originally races of man parasized exclusively by A. duodenale and inhabiting the Holoarctic region, that is Europe, Asia, north of the Oriental region, and northern Africa; and that there were other races of man parasitized exclusively by N. americanus and inhabiting the Oriental region, that is the southern peninsulas of Asia and Indoasia or the Malay Archipelago ; and also the Ethiopian region, that is, Africa south of the Sahara Desert."

"If the harvest of 1930-1931 is as good as that of 1929-1930 is proving to be, we can expect the market price to fall below the cost of production throughout the Philippines, for Indoasia will also carry over large stocks because of the diminished purchasing power of Chinese brought about by the fall of silver and the exchange rate."