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terated with the blood of goats ; the genuine kind was fold at a 

 great rate. 



The trees or Ihrubs which we know to produce this medi- 

 cine in our difpenfatory are the Dracana Draco^ of which rafj- 

 delli has given a good figure in his monograph on the fubjedt. 

 According to Kaempfer, Amcen. Exot, 554, another of the ve- 

 getables it is extracted from is a Palmapinus Rottani DJierenang, 

 one of the Rotangs defcribed by Rumpbius under the name of 

 Paimijuncus Draco^v, p. 115 tab. 58. fig. i. This grows in the 

 thick and almoft impervious forefls of Java. 



Another kind is the produce of the Santahim Rubrtim, or Sandalwood, 

 Red Sanders \ and again, from X\\^ Dracoena Terminalis oi Li7i- 

 nauSi Rumpb. iv. p. 18. tab. 34, called in Tertiate, Ngajfi, or Ha^ffi. 

 This fpecies grows in Borneo, and bears a fruit, fays Beeckmany 

 as red as a cherry ; the juice, the befl in the world, is extradted 

 from the tree, and the color tried by rubbing it on paper. The 

 natives bring it in drops, wrapped in leaves ; but are fo apt to 

 adulterate it, that we do not chufe to purchafe without previous 

 examination. 



Another kind is procured from the Gladiolus Odoratus In- 

 dicus, Rumpb. v. p. 185. tab. 73. For further accounts I mufl re- 

 fer to that P/iny of the Indies in the places cited, to vol. ii. 

 p. 252.; and to Kaempfer, 551 to 557. The drug, from whatfo- 

 ever tree or plant it be gotten, maintains its place in our dif- 

 penfatory. 



At times a confiderable quantity of gold has been brought Gold. 

 here, which is found in the mines in the interior parts of the 

 country. Some is melted into bars, and ufually adulterated by a 



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