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tiiettt portion of the colony. A snmll quantity 

 of shih lias been plantetl. 



Many impediments offer themseUes to the 

 rapid progress of the new colonists. Deficiency 

 of capital, so great an obstacle in Earopeari vani- 

 munities, can liardly be estimated as one amidst 

 a simple people, whose wants are few j»nd easily 

 supplied, but the paneity oi choncoks, and other 

 agricuUural impiementi:, is a serious draw back; 

 to this may be added their slovenly method of 

 agriculture, cat^tin^ in their seed amid the stumps 

 of the trees which they havd felled, leaving tbe 

 stocks ill the ground. 



The old planters affirm that the mnaln\QV wet 

 rice fields, about the (intiUa. will produce three 

 crops of paddy, per annum; the /adati^^s, or dry 

 ones, of course, but one. About two hundred gaa- 

 tangs of paddy had already been planted in No- 

 vember 1633. 



Dammar and wood oil are procurable in small 

 quantities from trees in the inimediate vicinity of 

 Bukit Miniak, and Taujoug Serai, aud al^o. in 

 larger quantities from Bukit Bruan^^ atid Tanjong 

 Dahan. Act-paft atups^ and neebon^s fur lantei, 

 or laths, are cut on the river baitks, and exported 

 in considerable quantities t(j Malacca, St^oiigei, 

 Barro, Sec. Some valuable timber, such as the 

 mtrmiWfSttuiifa. rambeit d^foi^ and mtdatto kdum" 

 han^ trees are to be found \\\ tbe circumjacent 

 forest. 



The river, as well the banks at its mouth, 

 and those off Tanjong Serai and Tarjony; Dahan, 

 h abundantly supplied with fish, which turnis 

 tbe principal article of subsistence amongst the 



