GRAZING — CATTf,«. 



The flesh of the buffalo is salted in large pieces by 

 the Malays, by being 1 soaked for a night in strong 

 brine, and when dried, forms an article for provision- 

 ing native p rah us. Salted duck-eggs form aurithcr 

 in great demand, chiefly by junks* The Malays 

 salt these as they do the meat, but the Chinese mix a 

 red unctuous earth with the brine, which no doubt 

 ships the pores of the shell, and preserves them better. 

 They are put into this mixture at night and taken 

 out during the day to be dried, in the sun, which is in 

 fact, a halt- roasting process in a tropical climate. 

 The Malays make the average value of a prime 

 slaughtered butfalo, when the meat is sold fresh, 

 to be thus : 



Pice. 



300 catties (4001b?.) of flesll, at 4 pice per catty, 1,200 

 200 catties of clarified fat at drs, per picul, 1, 100 



Head and horns 30 



Otfal and bones. | 40 



Hide 60 



* 2,430 



Deduct original price of the buffalo 1,200 



Butcher's and other charges 200 



Profit, pice, 1,030 



If the carcase be salted and dried, the meat sells 

 for 8 pice the cattie, and of which there will be about 

 180 catties, equal in value to 13 drs. 75 pice; so that 

 the profit on the whole, in this instance, exceeds that 

 in the former by 2 drs. 30 pice. 



The Chinese who, as the Bench street lounger 

 would express it, cleverly bones every thing profita- 

 ble, from a pound of ivory or fcortoiseshcll, to a morsel 

 of the vilest garbage or dirt, buys up all the buffalo 



