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kind is common in the woods, as is the wild mangustin 

 in those of Malacca. A species of mangustin pro- 

 duces the gamboge of commerce, which exudes also 

 in small quantities from the cultivated varieties. 



The fruits of the islands have been so well described 

 by the writers on the Archipelago, that I will here do 

 no more than enumerate them, referring to the other 

 works for particular descriptions of them. The Ian- 

 sat is one of the finest ; it is small, and produced in 

 bunches from the stem and branches of the Lancium. 

 The bread, fruit (Artocarpus) is well known ; two 

 kinds exist in Borneo, but neither are esteemed by the 

 natives or Europeans. The ' nangka,' or ' jack,' and the 

 ' champadak,' are varieties of Artocarpus integrifolia, 

 and differ from each other in the smaller size, and 

 hairy stems of the latter. The Jack fruit is very 

 large, and exudes abundantly a slimy matter which 

 makes excellent bird-lime : a single fruit sometimes 

 weighs sixty pounds ; they esteem it, as it is constantly 

 producing its rough looking fruit from the trunks and 

 large branches. Though the tree grows forty feet 

 high, it will produce fruit on small ones : a wild 

 species is found in the jungle. 



The ' tampui ' is an orange-coloured fruit produced 

 on the stems and branches of a small tree, with large 

 dark coloured leaves, of the order Sapotaceae ; its pulp 

 is of a sweetish acid ; the fermented juice makes an in- 

 toxicating liquor much esteemed by the Dyaks. The 

 ' rhambut-an ' (Nephilium) is produced in bunches ter- 

 minally ; the pulp, which surrounds a seed of the size 

 and flavour of a cob-nut, is transparent, and of a delicate 



