Hiram is using a BIC type cigarette lighter to look for Sultan Abdulhamid. Personal cigarette lighters of that type did not exist until decades later.
Abdulhamid wants to help the Muslims in Aceh, and points to it on a world map. However, instead of pointing to Aceh, which is in the west of Indonesia, he points to Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka, an island nation just to the east of the southern end of India, hundreds of miles away from where Aceh really is.