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productive, and are consequently less grown. The 

 Padi-pulut is a curious species, each family grows a 

 little of it ; it is a fine strong growing kind, but when 

 cleaned and boiled, is of a peculiar clammy nature, 

 and is much used by the Malays in their cooking for 

 Juadahs and sweet-meats : the Europeans also use it for 

 puddings. It bears a higher price than the other kinds 

 in the market, and is never eaten by the Dyaks unless 

 it has been cooked in a green bamboo, as they suppose 

 that the priuk, or cooking pot, spoils the flavour, and the 

 Malays also are of this opinion. 



Land being so abundant, in proportion to the number 

 of inhabitants, but little of it is the property of indivi- 

 duals ; though each tribe has its limits, which have 

 been handed down from father to son for ages, so that 

 every old man of a tribe knows the exact extent of its 

 district. But, as in a country where beasts of burden 

 do not exist to assist the farmer in bringing home the 

 produce of his lands, it is a very great advantage to 

 the cultivator to have his field as near to the village 

 as possible, we find that the tribes situated at a 

 distance from the banks of the river, or where the 

 brooks are too small to admit of the use of the 

 canoe, the property in the vicinity of the houses 

 divided into plots, which are the acknowledged property 

 of certain individuals. During one of my visits to 

 the Sennah tribe, a farm of about fifty acres was 

 sold by one Dyak to another, the purchaser giving in 

 exchange one large jar, said to be of the value of sixty 

 rupees, or six pounds English. 



