mate object of go vernineDt plunder directly that 

 by bis industtious exertions he has amassed a 

 little properly. Nay, so far has tlve terror of 

 this rapacity extended that the inhabitants durst 

 not rear even a little poultry for fear of being 

 pillaged by the organs of government. 



The stajiie produce of Salang is rice, of which 

 there are no less than four kindt«, viz. fitst, the 

 comnion rice; secondly, the scented rice; third- 

 ly, the. red and purple colored rice; and fourth- 

 ly, a white and {glutinous species, whicli I ha.ve 

 met with also repeatedly in Burmah. and which 

 is supposed to be very nourishing and wholesome 

 fur convalescents. 



There are two harvests per ammm on the is- 

 land, vl?., the first, from the Sawtths^ or plains, in 

 JtiQuary, and the second, from the Ladangs, or 

 rising grouodSp in January The last is both 

 more laborious and km productive, yet, never* 

 iheless, h is the one most generally pursued. It 

 is carried on in that sJoi^enly manner which is so 

 characteristic of Peninsular natives, and to which 

 1 have already alluded. Tlie brushwood of 

 the spot, whereon the inhabitants purpose 

 commencing a iadaug^ is first cut down, then 

 the smaller trees, whilst those, whose girth 

 deters the laborer from the task of felling, are 

 merely lopped of their branches. Two or three 

 montlis afterwards, when the fallen forest has 

 become dry and sapless, fire is applied to the 

 mass whicb is thus consumed, with the excepti- 

 on of the larger stocks and slumps, which suffer 

 only partially from the process. The ground is 

 then cleared of the loose rubbish, and the sowing 



