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" the fact that although camphor, trees are abundant it very 

 " frequently happens that no camphor can be obtained from 

 " them. "Were it otherwise," said an old Binua who was sin- 

 " gularly free from superstitions of any kind " camphor is so 

 " valuable that not a single full grown tree would be left 

 " in the forest." Camphor is not collected by the Bermun 

 " tribes, at least on the western side of the Peninsula and 

 "they are unacquainted with the Bassa kapor." In com- 

 paring the words in the above list I have to acknowledge 

 the assistance of Inclie Mohamed Said, the Government 

 Munshi. 



( 1 ) " bani " ( or banir ) means the buttress-like root of a treee in Malay 

 and " dahan " a branch, bu1 the way in which these words came to hare the 

 meaning given in the text are somewhat obscure. 



