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on salt fiah, in preference, which they obtain 

 from Java and Siam. The lower iTtlcrs, howe- 

 ver, live upon freeh fish and muscles, which 

 they 6nd at ebb- tide buried an inch or two be* 

 low ilie surface of the sand, but this is not to be as* 

 cribed to choice but poverty, as the fresh fish is 

 considerably cheaper. 



The handicrafts of the Residency of Rhio are 

 few and limited. There is one public, and one 

 private, brick-kihi on the island of Bintang-, but, 

 although the bricks and pan-tiles, manufactured 

 there, are of a very tolerable quality, they form 

 no part of tbe export trade. These, with as raa* 

 ny lime kWm, manufactories of silk from the raw 

 material iujported from Chiiia« and Siam arrack 

 distilleries, fruit markets, &c. are the principal 

 trades of Binlang:, Oa the island of Pinigad, 

 and at Looagooi^ on the river Ayer Jawar in Bin- 

 tang, there are good boats and savipang pookats 

 built; whilst the meaner occupations^ which can 

 hardly be termed trades, bttt which employ a 

 great proportion of tUe inhabitants, may be thus 

 stated ; some are engaged m burning lime, or chu- 

 nam, for betel; others in extracting wood oil; 

 others, in manufacturing dammar ; others, in col- 

 lecting water rattans ; others, in making kadjam 

 and aUaps, and others in cutting up wood into 

 billets. 



There are also trades-people to be found in the 

 Residency of Hhio, such as carpenters, joiners, 

 bricklayers, dyers, and smiths, who are, however, 

 to be considered more in the liglit o( job mecha- 

 nics than of regular artizans, as they always, 

 when employed, work at a fixed daily rate; 



