OF PRODUCTION OF ALOES-WOOD. JJ 



and of an inferior quality. Some seem to think 

 that it exists likewise in China, but this I 

 doubt ; for that which is sold at Canton, and 

 tkence distributed over the whole empire, and also 

 over Japan, Malacca, Surate, and Arabia, ap- 

 pears evidently to have been bought in the ports 

 of Cochin China. We find that when by the 

 devastation of continued wars, which were only 

 ended in the year 1773, in which the tyrant Nhai 

 revolted, this kingdom no longer possessed a suf- 

 ficient number of hands to collect the aloes-wood 

 in the deserts and on the mountains of the western 

 regions ; the sale of this valuable article then also 

 ceased in the emporium of China. 



In the islands of Borneo, Macassar, the 

 Moluccas, Sumatra, at Malabar, Pegu, and in 

 the territories of Malacca, are also found some 

 sweet-scented sorts of wood, which I have seen 

 and which have been by some authors called Pao 

 de Aguila (Aloes-wood) but they are far inferior 

 both in scent and virtue, and are sold at a much 

 cheaper rate. 



