TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



Pa a a. 



Climate 1 



Soil .... * 



Facilities for cultivation .... .... 5 



Labor .... 7 



Agricultural Implements «... .... 10 



Elephants and Draft Cattle 14 



Agricultural Produce : 



Spices ...... 16 



The Nutmeg 32 



The Clove ...... ♦ 39 



Pepper ...... 40 



The Cocoanut 43 



Sugar .... ...... ...... 49 



Indigo ...... 58 



NUtim 61 



Gambir .... . .»» .... ...... 62 



Tobacco 67 



Coffee .... ...... 67 



Cotton .... 68 



Sirih or Betel Vine . . . . GO 



Penang or the Areca w + 72 



Nipah and othtr Palmites 73 



CHAPTER II, 



Corn .... ...... , 80 



Cultivated extent ...» 03 



Food of the people, clo tiling and housing 86 



Average consumption of rice by the population 88 



Comparative fertility of th"e soil in the Straits ami in 



Martaban fc 90 



