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and the women wear their hair in a knot behind their head. They are 

 rather dark. The lower part of their body is surrounded with a white piece 

 of cotton and on their back they wear a short jacket of flowered cotton. 



Their manners and customs are pure and simple. Their houses are 

 built rather high and have no flooring of boards, but at a height of about 

 four feet they make a floor of split up cocoanut-trees , which are fastened 

 with rattan, just as if it were a sheep-stye; on this floor they spread their 

 beds and mats, on which they sit cross-legged , whilst they also eat, sleep 

 and cook here. 



Many of the people live from fishing , for which purpose they go out 

 to sea in canoes made out of a single tree. 



The country produces lignum aloes, ebony, damar (*) (a kind of 

 resin), tin, etc. Damar is the sap of a tree, from which it flows out into the 

 ground and is obtained by digging; it comes out of the tree in drops, just 

 as the resin of pine-trees; it burns with a name and the natives use it for 

 light. When they have made a boat, they use this substance to smear it 

 over the seams and then the water cannot get through them ; much of it is 

 collected for foreign countries. There is also a better sort, which is clear 

 and transparent and resembles amber; this is called sun-tu-lu-s ( 2 ); the natives 

 make cap-buttons from it, which are sold by them and are those which we 

 call water-amber. 



Tin is founcl in two places of the mountains, and the king has ap- 

 pointed ofncers to control the mines. People are sent to wash it , and after 

 it has been melted, it is cast into small blocks weighing one catti eight taels 

 or one catti four taels official weight; ten pieces are bound together with 

 rattan and form a small bundie, whilst forty pieces make a large bundie. 

 In all their trading transactions they use these pieces of tin instead of money. 



Their language, their books and their niarriage-ceremonies are nearly 

 the same as those in Java. 



In the forest is a tree called sago, which is soaked and pounded, and 

 the flour got in this way is made into small globes as large as green peas; 

 these are clried in the sun and sold for food. 



On the low grounds along the sea grows a tree, of which the leaves 

 are long as kadjang-leaves ; when first shooting out they are like long knives 



O *JT MR ün?» tlic Ma ^ a y namc lor vcsm - '^ s samc rc ^ ul ' s Mil1 nmv bbteaned and 

 used in the same way. 



