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art to the assistance of nature, by lighting a fire 

 round the roots of the tree and thus accelerating^ 

 the ascension of the sap. The same process ob- 

 tains throughout the Malayan Peninsula, and 

 is also employed with reference to cocoanut trees 

 in order to render iheni more fruitful, although 

 it is not to be supposed that the Malays are 

 acquainted with the principles on which their 

 procedure is founded. • I am not aware what 

 quantity of oil is i^enerally procured from one 

 tree; hut, from the length of time that 1 have 

 seen them take in consuming, and the bright flame 

 yielded by thera when set fire to by the British in 

 the second expedition against Nanning, 1 should 

 conceive that the Kruing furnished a very tolera- 

 ble proportion of oil, although much inferior in 

 quality to that procured from the fruit of the 

 Cocoanut, 



1 have been unable to ascertaiu the particular 

 use made of the wood of the Getallng, but be- 

 lieve that it is employed in house building ; the 

 RangaSt the Champadak, and the Dawtdarao, are 

 used for furniture and inferior work, and tlie 

 juices of the former are deleterious, and blister the 

 skin ; a sort of varnish is also drawn from ttie Ran- 

 gas. The Sera^a and Aledang are sawn into 

 planks ; the Krahjie is used for rudders and an- 

 ' chor stocks for ihe country vessels ; the Mtrbow^ 

 Biliamt and Klat^ for ceihng rafters, and posts ; 



* It is a!mc5«t minpc(»s^ry to remind the EiiFfip^an render Uiat ibe 

 ctrctUmtioti uf nNiiih iirikingty confurnicd tu lUut of blood in Lttt* ti»iin:U 

 •ystem, tbe Hnul heini: carrit^d up tii tbe top of ikv tren and to the hriui- 

 tie* £jj mean* of artfrieSn, and retominff byveiBn. A* iSie weiisht of the 

 coin ran of aap VToald prevent iu a*cf nsbo, th« artvries, ai« fiirnUht.'d with 

 valves, Tike thoise of the anim^lit a|>e'Eui^ upwuvdii nud placed at convent* 

 ent di&tance*. When the solar, or iiiher^ hcttt bas diawn, or forced a por* 

 tion of the sap up the, tube, the valve bf^neiith it dii«Ra with the wv'i^ht 

 ftnd prevents its return, the h<rat» m*«nwhUe, dravting k higJicr tt|> the 

 tube, and another valve nciiui; iu Jike njauiier. 



