40G TRAVELS IX THE EAST INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



as early as tin, or at least five hundred years before 

 Solomon commenced building Ms splendid temple. 



Gold is also found in the western and southern 

 parts of Borneo, and in some places on Luzon and 

 Magindanao, in the Philippine Archipelago. As we 

 have already noticed, it is found on Bachian, and, in 

 the northern and southern peninsulas of Celebes. It 

 is indeed one of the most widely-distributed metals 

 obtained in the archipelago. It is not only found 

 on many of the islands that are not wholly of vol- 

 canic origin, between Asia and Australia, but also 

 from place to place over both of those continents. 

 The quantity obtained here, on Sumatra, is wholly 

 unknown, but, judging from what is used in orna- 

 ments, it must be very considerable. It is always 

 bought and sold in the form of " dust," and has never 

 been coined for money in any part of the archipelago, 

 except at Achin. 



