Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION OF ARTICLES OF EXPORTATION. Vegetable Products Rice--Minor Grains--Sago.-- Vege- table Oils.--Cotton Wool--Cotton Fabrics.--Indigo.-- Black Pepper.--Coffee--Sugar.--Cloves.--Nutmeg and Mace.--Misoy--Ginger, Turmeric, Cayu-puti Oil.-- Areca.-- Catechu Gambir Tobacco--Malay Camphor. --Benzoin or Frankincense Lignum Aloes, or Agila Wood.--Dragon's Blood.--Damar or Rosi?i.--Sandal Wood.--Sapan Wood.--Ebony.--Incorruptible Wood.-- Rattans.--Materials of Cordage--Teak Timber.--Animal Products.--Horns and Hides.--Ivory--The Bird of Paradise and Argus Pheasant Feathers.--Birds' Nests.--- Lac.--Bees' Wax, --Animal Flesh--Fisheries Dried Fish.--Sharks' Fins.--Tripang.--Tortoise Shell.--Pearls. Pearl Oysters Cowrie Shells.---Ambergris.--Agar awr. Whale Fishery.--Mineral Products TinGold. Iron.--Copper.--The Diamond--Sulphur.--Salt. U Nder the common arrangement of--vegetable, --animal, --and mineral products, I shall proceed to give an account of the exports of the Indian islands, including not only such articles as are sent abroad, but such as are exchanged in the course of the commercial intercourse of the natives ampng themselves. After the general account rendered of the state of society in the Indian islands, it is hardly necessary to mention, that almost the whole of the articles which they export are nearly in a crude form, and have scarcely undergone any degree of manufacture. Among the most important are articles of food, the principal of which is rice. The most fertile, populous, and industrious countries of the Archipelago export rice to their neighbours. The most remarkable of these are Java, Bali, some parts of Celebes, with the most fertile spots of Sumatra, and of the Malay Peninsula. Rice is.
