the stem : an earthen pot is suspended to tins at 

 night, and the juice is collected in bamboos before 

 stm-rise the next morning, \ shoot, or mayoug, lasts 

 about three mouths and yields, daily, on an average, 

 one half of a ehupah of juice. Only one shoot is tap- 

 ped atattme; this lasts for about 3 months, when 

 another shoot is ready — which lasts tor three months 

 longer. The tree is then left for one year to 

 recover itself. r rhe Nipah is said to sustain this 

 treatment fir a long series of years, without suffering 

 much in vigor. In 800 pjrdoos or hushes, nuh about 

 400 are in hearing at a time. The fruit appears 

 about the third year afler plantiujL and it continues to 

 flower yearly afterwards. Until that period, nira 

 cannot !>e drawn from the palm. When the syrup 

 i> <'nuverted into sugar, the latter is made tip Into 

 cakes, about three inches in diameter, andhalfan inch 

 thick, the rim being cased with a leaf. Hut owing to 

 s .me saline particles, perhaps from the plant gro win g 

 in brackish Mater, the sugar from the cocuauut palm 

 is preferred In the natives. 



The cultivation of one orloug-, 800 palms, 

 produces, yearly, of juice 9,000 gantangs, or 

 4,500 gautaugs of syrup ; which at 3 pice (J>' 



gantang, is . . Drs. 135 



ii men 6)4 drs. ^ month, for 6 months. . 72 

 Si fie k, viz. boiler, vat, knife, axe, crooked 



knife, gollok, biJIiong, barrel or vase, &c. 5 



« 77 



OS 



Deduct tor quit-rent, accidents, &e tO 



Profit yearly, Sp. dollars, 4«* 

 Tbe abiw is calculated for He lowest rate of profit. 

 The juice is occasionally converted into vinegar. 

 The ah )\ e calculation is lor a plantation in full Ijeartnir, 

 whieh it cannot be expected to be until the 5th a ear. 



